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by sakabaro 2991 days ago
I don’t think allowing the police to remove their errors from the Internet is a good thing.
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FooBarWidget 2991 days ago
Who said anything about the police? The GDPR does not say that the police has the right remove stuff. It allows courts to rule that a company must comply to a removal order.
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sakabaro 2991 days ago
It’s worth noting that around 85% of requests based on right to be forgotten were from public figures and institutions in 2016.

The legitimate cases are rare.

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tpush 2991 days ago
Actual statistics: https://transparencyreport.google.com/eu-privacy/overview?su...

88.7% of requests by private persons. And even excluding those, only 20.9% of the remaining request were made by gov institutions or politicians.

Please don't spread lies, thank you.

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