Google on Thursday told European officials that forgetting isnt easy, especially when details are few and guidelines are murky regarding when personal privacy trumps public interest. The worlds leading Internet search engine said that as of July 18 it had received more than 91,000 requests to delete a combined total of 328,000 links under Europes right to be forgotten ruling. The most requests came from France and Germany, with approximately 17,500 and 16,500 respectively, according to a copy of a letter Google global privacy counsel Peter Fleischer sent to an EU data protection committee. Another 12,000 removal requests came from Britain, 8,000 from Spain, and 7,500 from Italy.
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