Bing and Ask follow Google’s lead in enforcing ‘right to be forgotten’
Bing and Ask have become the latest search engines to begin enforcing the controversial ‘right to be forgotten’ ruling by planning to take down contentious links, as Google reveals it is being swamped by around 1,000 deletion requests per day.
Microsoft’s Bing languishes as a distant minnow in contrast to the dominance of Google and has thus received only a ‘small fraction’ of the deluge to hit Google but this has nevertheless proved sufficient to develop its own system of compliance, according to the New York Times.
In a statement Bing said: “We’re currently working on a special process for residents of the European Union to request blocks of specific privacy-related search results on Bing in response to searches on their names.
"Given the many questions that have been raised about how the recent ruling from the Court of Justice of the European Union should be implemented, developing an appropriate system is taking us some time. We’ll be providing additional information about making requests soon."
A similar situation is unfolding at the offices of Ask, where a spokesperson said: “Our legal and compliance team is in the process of developing policies and procedures around the very limited number of requests we’ve received to date, which we are handling on a case by case basis."