Background

A recent ruling by the Court of Justice of the European Union (C-131/12, 13 May 2014) found that certain people can ask search engines to remove specific results for queries that include their name, where the interests in those results appearing are outweighed by the person’s privacy rights.

When you make such a request, we will balance the privacy rights of the individual with the public’s interest to know and the right to distribute information. When evaluating your request, we will look at whether the results include outdated information about you, as well as whether there’s a public interest in the information — for example, we may decline to remove certain information about financial scams, professional malpractice, criminal convictions, or public conduct of government officials.

You will need a digital copy of a form of identification to complete this form. If you are submitting this request on behalf of someone else, you will need to supply identification for them. Fields marked with an asterisk * must be completed for your request to be submitted.

Name used to search This should be the name that, when used as a search query, produces a list of results from which you are requesting that a result, or results, be removed

Please enter your name.

Full name of requester Your own name, if you are representing somebody else (If you’re sending a request for someone else, you must have the legal authority to act on their behalf)

If you are submitting this request on behalf of someone else, please specify your relationship to that person (for example: “parent” or “attorney”)

Contact email address (where emails about your request will be sent)

Contact email address

For us to evaluate your request, you must:
(a) Identify each result in the list of results that you want removed by providing the URL for the web page that the result links to. (The URL can be taken from your browser bar after clicking on the search result in question.)
(b) Explain why the linked web page is about you (or, if you are submitting this form on behalf of someone else, why the page is about that person)
(c) For each URL, please explain why the inclusion of this URL as a search result is irrelevant, outdated, or otherwise objectionable.

URLs for results you want removed Add additional

Please enter a valid URL that appears in Google's search results, including the leading "http://" or "https://".

If your request concerns more than one result, please provide the URL for each result and an explanation of why the inclusion of that result in search results is irrelevant, outdated, or otherwise objectionable. We will not be able to process your complaint without this information. For example:

http://example_1.com
This URL is about me because... This page should not be included as a search result because...
http://example_2.com
This URL is about me because... This page should not be included as a search result because...

To prevent fraudulent removal requests from people impersonating others, trying to harm competitors, or improperly seeking to suppress legal information, we need to verify identity. Please attach a legible copy of a document that verifies your identity (or the identity of the person whom you are authorized to represent). A passport or other government-issued ID is not required. You may obscure parts of the document (e.g., numbers) as long as the remaining information identifies you. You may also obscure your photograph, unless you are asking for removal of pages that include photographs of you. Google will use this information solely to help us document the authenticity of your request and will delete the copy within a month of closing your removal request case except as otherwise required by law.

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You must provide a copy of your photo ID.

I represent that the information in this request is accurate and that I am the person affected by the web pages identified, or I am authorized by the person affected to submit this request.

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Please note that we will not be able to process your request if the form isn't properly filled out or if the request is incomplete.

By typing your name below and clicking ‘submit’, you are representing that the above statements are true, that you are requesting the removal of the search results identified by the URLs you have listed above, and that, if you are acting on behalf of another persons, you have the legal authority to do so.

Google Inc. will use the personal information that you supply on this form (including your e-mail address and any ID information) for the purposes of processing your request and meeting our legal obligations. We may share details of your request with data protection authorities, but only when they require these details to investigate or review a decision that we have made. That will normally be because you have chosen to contact your national DPA about our decision. We may provide details to webmaster(s)of the URLs that have been removed from our search results.

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Search removal request under data protection law in Europe

Background

Personal information

Search results you want removed from the list of results produced when searching for the name

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