Making Google Forget Plastic Surgery Gone Wrong
What started as a plastic surgery gone wrong in Europe could become a landmark case for the future of the Internet. A Spanish plastic surgeon has taken his fight against Google to the EU in an effort to have a single, negative Goolge search result for his name expunged from the record.
Google refuses to do it, and the company's power in the US has been enough to keep it form having to do any individual scrubs. But in the EU, regulators may take less kindly to the Internet giant and force Google to let people have more control over what shows up about them in the search engine's results. Plastic surgeon Hugo Guidotti Russo wants Google to remove a 1991 news article about a patient who was angry with him over an allegedly botched plastic surgery. However, the article does not mention that Russo was later cleared of wrongdoing in the surgery, and it shows up on Russo's first page of results.