Microsoft and Yahoo respond to European 'right to be forgotten' requests

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/dec/01/microsoft-yahoo-right-to-be-forgotten

Yahoo and Microsoft’s Bing search engine have begun responding to “right to be forgotten” requests for search result deletions in Europe, joining Google.

Bing published its request form in July, but the first removals have now taken place according to reputation management firm Reputation VIP’s Forget.me site, which helps people submit requests.

“There have been 699 demands for ‘search engine result’ removal requests on Bing handled via Forget.me since the 23rd of July, representing a total of 2 362 URLs. So far, 79 requests have received an answer from Bing,” explained the company.

For now, such removals are taking place within Europe on the local versions of search engines. However, European data regulators are expected to tell Google – and by extension, its rivals – to apply these search deletions outside Europe too.

I think that the right to be forgotten campaign is a great thing as users of the internet will fill more secure in the future and they will be less afraid of people finding personal information or history about them that they dont want to know.