Beyond anecdote, we know very little about what kind and quantity of information is being delisted from search results, what sources are being delisted and on what scale, what kinds of requests fail and in what proportion, and what are Google's guidelines in striking the balance between individual privacy and freedom of expression interests.
It also reports that it has delisted from name search results just over 40% of the URLs that it has reviewed.
In various venues, Google has shared some 40 examples of delisting requests granted and denied (including 22 examples on its website), and it has revealed the top sources of material requested to be delisted (amounting to less than 8% of total candidate URLs).
The benefits of such transparency extend to those who request that links be delisted, those who might make such requests, those who produce content that is or might be delisted, and the wider public who might or do access such material.
We should know if the anecdotal evidence of Google's process is representative: What sort of information typically gets delisted (e.g., personal health) and what sort typically does not (e.g., about a public figure), in what proportions and in what countries?
Because there is no formal involvement of original sources or public representatives in the decision-making process, there can be only incidental challenges to information that is delisted, and few safeguards for the public interest in information access.
The organisation has never delisted something from world heritage on request from a national government.
The government has been accused of misleading the UN in its bid to strip world heritage protection from tracts of Tasmanian forest, after the release of pictures purportedly showing that ecologically pristine areas will be delisted.
U.S. Technologies' shares were delisted from Nasdaq after the firm failed to make timely filings to the SEC.
Companies with negative net assets or with an operating profit of less than 10m yuan ($1.6m), will now be delisted within three years, the CSRC promises.If listed companies smarten up their act, what about the investors who trade in them?
Hunters angered by the proliferating wolves' impact on elk and other shootable species were behind the campaign to get them "delisted" in America.
