Many have seen the removals as censorship, with websites set up to expose those links that have been removed under the ruling.
Home Office minister James Brokenshire said 22,000 FNOs had been removed under this government, though he admitted the authorities were struggling to cope with a 28% increase in appeals.
In most cases, dams have been removed under pressure from government agencies, from lawsuits by environmentalists, or in the course of bankruptcy filings.
Google also places a warning on named searches that "some results may have been removed under data protection law in Europe".
On 30 September, the immigration minister, Scott Morrison, told the media that the West Papuans had been removed under a 2003 memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Papua New Guinea.
A message now appears at the bottom of every search carried out on Google, warning: "Some results may have been removed under data protection law in Europe".
This will always be something that can be avoided so much more reliably by exploring volumes of newspapers rather than forlornly search-engine surfing with the prevailing moniker: "Some results may have been removed under data protection law in Europe".
City officials could not say whether any babies have been removed under the new regulations, but they estimated that 150 to 200 infants a year were born into families with children in foster care.
However, Googling several of the other names (for example, Peter Abatan or Derek Farmer, whose contributions are inoffensive) leads to a page carrying the disclaimer "Some results may have been removed under data protection law in Europe".
Those facilities had been removed under a controversial new law, HB 589, whose Republican sponsors said was necessary to ensure the integrity of the voting process and whose detractors said was a political ruse to make it more difficult for largely Democratic-voting black people to get to the polling stations.
