Mediagazer: Google launches ‘advisory council’ page on right to be forgotten (Jemima Kiss/Guardian)

4:25 PM ET, July 11, 2014

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Jemima Kiss / Guardian:

Google launches ‘advisory council’ page on right to be forgotten — Search engine formalising procedure to deal with more than 70,000 requests for links to be removed after EU ruling fallout — Google launched a dedicated page on Friday to publicise its advisory council on the right …

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David Drummond / Guardian:

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James Ball / Guardian:

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Cory Doctorow / Guardian:

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Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal:

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Ted Johnson / Variety:

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