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Google data ruling ‘amounts to internet censorship’

Google has launched a service to allow Europeans to ask for personal data to be removed from online search results. The move comes after a landmark European Union court ruling earlier this month, which gave people the "right to be forgotten". Links to "irrelevant" and outdated data should be erased on request, it said. But will it work? Joseph Seddon is a trustee from Wikipedia UK.

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