(National-UAE) Google has rejected dozens of requests from convicted terrorists and their families to delete news reports on atrocities that killed hundreds of people.
Terrorists across Europe have asked the media giant to act under the EU’s “right to be forgotten” scheme and requested that details of their crimes are permanently wiped from internet searches.
Under the policy, Google considers each request and decides whether its presence on the internet breaches a person’s human rights, or if it were in the public interest for it to remain.
In one case, a relative of one of the bombers in the 2005 bus and underground attacks on London on July 7 applied to have two news articles removed.
The relative was not believed to be implicated in the attack.
