Right to be forgotten: the ten most annoying websites – Rue89

In one year, the Europeans have asked Google to dereference over one million URLs. Photo embarrassing evening unfavorable article, personal data … the applicants were able to see the outlines of their new right to be forgotten on the Internet.

Open by a decision of the Court of Justice European Union, this right enables any EU citizen to file a claim via a form. But the search engine is not required to accept all requests; 58% of them were rejected, according to recently updated data

Application refused, application accepted

Google gives the example of a French request.

“A priest convicted of possessing child pornography has asked us to remove articles about his sentence and his banishment from the Church. “

In this case, the search engine did not delete the corresponding pages of results. Google considered “public interest” of information prevailed. Conversely, the American giant decided to hide URLs to other applications:

“A political activist who was stabbed during a demonstration asked us to remove a link to an article on the incident.

We have removed the relevant page of search results corresponding to the name of the victim. “

The vacuum Profile Engine

Google has listed the ten sites that come up most often in applications.

Not surprisingly, Facebook tops. It is the second most visited site in the world – just after Google! And the social network itself as the perfect place to gather personal data.

Profile Engine second site from the list, is used less but has already a lot of talk, for these same questions right to oblivion. It compiles indeed of online data, without their consent, to automatically create profiles. If you removed your information from the original site, Profile Engine uses its own archives – your public Facebook posts, for example -. To create very complete pages

We understand better why the major research around this site concern the abolition profiles …

Screen Capture the results of a Google search “profile engine”

Third, fourth, and sixth, are sites belonging to Google:

• the forum (Google Groups)
• the video platform (YouTube)
• social network (Google Plus).

Badoo, well known to the CNIL

The social network and dating site Badoo is both square. With over 250 million users claimed he has already seen several controversies over its use of data. Dozens of complaints were filed with the National Commission on Informatics and Liberties (CNIL) after the release of personal information and resale of email addresses.

The last three of “top” Yasni, Wherevent and 192 have a similar operation. They are portals to find people or events broadcast on other platforms.

Google ranking and points out that the threat to the personal data also comes from these “giant vacuum cleaner” that mirror the whole sections of the web and restore user profiles without their consent.