"So going forward, we'll honour requests from people to remove nude or sexually explicit images shared without their consent from Google Search results".
Some require a legal executor to make a request, while others honour requests from anyone who can prove a family connection or even a link to an online obituary.
New EU rules on the right to be forgotten are being championed by the EU justice commissioner, Viviane Reding, heralding the prospect of serious fines for companies that refuse to honour requests from customers to erase personal data.
Users will now have to grant permission before the firm creates a profile on them, and Google has to honour requests to delete data within two months (although it will have an additional six months to remove the content from backups).
A representative of the organisation declined to speculate on how the money was spent, except that it was not for the intended purpose, and the government has failed to honour requests to return the money.
Apple, on the other hand, appears to be honouring refund requests, even for software which has been used within the 14 day period.
"We honoured certain requests to keep operational details and the identity of the participants confidential," he wrote.
But laws like the US CAN-SPAM Act and the UK Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations impose stiff penalties on companies that fail to honour unsubscribe requests or provide an unsubscribe link, so I figured it could be worth a shot.
The ECJ ruling includes a public interest test, which says that search engines do not have to honour removal requests if keeping the links about a person "is justified by the preponderant interest of the general public in having, on account of inclusion in the list of results, access to the information in question".
