A group of Internet scholars and legal academics has asked Google to be more transparent regarding its decision- making process in respect of its implementation of Europe's 'Right to be forgotten' ruling. A year ago, Europe's top court passed on a legal ruling, which requires search engines so as to process private individuals' requests intended for delisting erroneous, outdated or inappropriate data returned by a search result for their name.

The company has processed approximately 250,000 individual requests, in which it granted delisting to individual requesters in nearly 40% of cases. In order to make these delisting decisions, search engines need to assess any public interest in obtaining the information. The group is calling for more transparency regarding how Google is making those value judgments.

According to a Google spokesperson, "The company will consider these ideas, weighing them against the various constraints within which we have to work -- operationally and from a data protection standpoint". As per the spokesperson, a section of their Transparency Report was launched on these removals within six months of the ruling since they think that it is important to help the public know about the effect of the ruling.

The spokesperson further said that their transparent report is always developing and feedback like this helps them know regarding information the public would find useful. The group is particularly talking about Google since it is the most used search engine in Europe, with approximately 90% share of the market. It said that the information released by Google so far been 'anecdotal' and outsiders can't figure out how representative the information is.