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>But I think it would be an overall net negative for abuse in hiding truly relevant information. You say that, but according to some reports, only 5% of reques
by thegeomaster 9y ago
>But I think it would be an overall net negative for abuse in hiding truly relevant information.
You say that, but according to some reports, only 5% of requests to Google to remove personal information from search results comes from high-profile figures (politicians and the like), the rest is just ordinary people [1]. I know that there is a huge selection bias going on here, but I'm not sure you can discount the data point just based off of that.
[1]: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jul/14/google-accidentally-reveals-right-to-be-forgotten-requests https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jul/14/google-ac...
- jbigelow76 9y agoI don't know if the volume of requests is as important as the nature of the request. If part of the 5%, let's say it's high profile person due to running a large ponzi scheme that defrauded people out of millions of dollars, that may be only one request but it is info that most definitely should be easily surfaced.