Google and Bing received more than a million 'right to be forgotten' requests between 2015 and 2021, with cases rising dramatically during the pandemic.
from Surfshark shows that half of these requests came from users in western Europe, with French requests accounting for nearly a quarter of the total, while Estonia had the most requests per head of population. Eastern European countries exercised their right to erasure the least.
After initial enthusiasm when the policy was introduced, requests tailed off between 2015 and 2020. Then, though, the number rose by nearly 30 per cent in 2020, reaching 161,300. Cyprus and Portugal, for example, submitted almost three times as many requests in 2020 than in the previous year. "One of the reasons for the rise in the “right to be forgotten” requests in 2020 could be attributed to the Covid-19 pandemic. As many daily activities became virtual, it encouraged people to be more conscious of their digital hygiene and review their privacy online," says Gabriele Kaveckyte, privacy counsel at Surfshark.
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