Since Russia’s new law on the “right to be forgotten” took effect on January 1, 2016, Yandex — Russia’s most popular Internet search engine — has received 3,600 takedown requests from 1,348 people. The company says it has complied with 27 percent of these requests, rejecting the rest.
Yandex says its high rejection rate has to do with the difficulty of verifying information and determining if information violates an individual’s rights. As a remedy, Yandex refers many submissions to the courts. (According to the company, 51 percent of all takedown requests have targeted information that is supposedly “accurate but irrelevant” — a category of data that Internet search engines are supposed to remove, if asked, under the new “right to be forgotten.”)
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