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Re:Google seeks to limit ‘right to be forgotten’ by claiming... by thegeomaster on Friday April 06, 2018 @03:41PM (#16776688)
>But I think it would be an overall net negative for abuse in hiding truly relevant information.

You say that, but according to some reports, only 5% of requests to Google to remove personal information from search results comes from high-profile figures (politicians and the like), the rest is just ordinary people [1]. I know that there is a huge selection bias going on here, but I'm not sure you can discount the data point just based off of that.

[1]: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jul/14/google-ac...

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Re:Google seeks to limit ‘right to be forgotten’ by claiming... by jbigelow76 on Friday April 06, 2018 @04:58PM (#16777372)
I don't know if the volume of requests is as important as the nature of the request. If part of the 5%, let's say it's high profile person due to running a large ponzi scheme that defrauded people out of millions of dollars, that may be only one request but it is info that most definitely should be easily surfaced.
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