Google Agrees: Germans Have a 'Right to Be Forgotten'

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…but Germans are feeling luckier.

Today in reputation management news, the legal fight is over.

Google seems more eager than expected to go along with a recent European Union court ruling requiring the company to give citizens the right to request the removal of unflattering links–at least in Germany.

This morning The Wall Street Journal reported that the world’s least evil business will comply with German privacy officials in creating a “right to be forgotten” mechanism that allows users to log formal complaints about any link they happen to dislike.

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