A special taskforce comprising of European privacy watchdogs will be overseeing Google’s methods of handling user requests and complaints under the recently passed “right to be forgotten” ruling.
According to a member of the Article 29 group of privacy watchdogs, which met in Brussels today to decide on the matter of appointing such a taskforce, the panel of privacy watchdogs will look at how regulators should handle and react to complaints from users about Google’s process of handling requests to delete online details.
EU handed out the “right to be forgotten” ruling under which it mandated search engines to delete personal information of Europeans where their fundamental rights are harmed and there’s not public interest in publishing such information.
Google has been flooded with removal request right from day one of posting a “right to be forgotten” form. On day one it received over 12,000 removal requests and by day four it received over 41,000 such requests.
Google shall have to decide on whether to adhere to the removal requests or not – a process that would prove to be quite complex and difficult considering the number of parameters involved.
