Google Posts Request Form in EU to Remove Personal Info Online
Found on eWEEK on Saturday, 31 May 2014
Google has made an online form and process available for people in the European Union who want to have information about them removed from searches. The move complies with a recent court order in the EU that search providers such as Google must have such a process to "forget" things about people if they make removal requests.
Users who want to make a removal request will have to provide their full name, a copy of a valid photo ID and other related information.
After you jumped through all the hoops to get some URLs removed, all you need to do is switching to a non-european Google version: surprise, the links are still there. Only that now Google has a copy of your ID (which might not even be legal in some jurisdictions).