The search giant's plight reveals the challenges inherent in trying to comply with a controversial and complex law.
Google
is having a tough time dealing with a new European law that requires it
to remove links to search results upon user request.
In a column published Thursday for The Guardian, Google chief legal officer David Drummond said that since May when the "right to be forgotten" ruling went into effect, the company has received more than 70,000 takedown requests
encompassing 250,000 individual webpages. In most cases, Google's team
is reviewing the requests from users who provide limited information and
not much context.
