Additionally, 2 requests were submitted from Cyprus, considered as Western Asia by the source.
According to the source:
"The 鈥漴ight to be forgotten鈥 was first established in 2014 and redefined as the 鈥渞ight to erasure鈥 with the GDPR adoption in 2018. Therefore, the right applies to countries covered by GDPR (the EU and the EEA) and some other European countries that have adopted similar laws, like the UK and Switzerland."
"We analyzed 32 countries that submitted 鈥渞ight to be forgotten鈥 requests to Google and Microsoft Bing between 2015 and 2021. Countries that had submitted requests for one company but not the other were excluded from the analysis due to discrepancies in the countries reported by the two companies. For example, while Russia鈥檚 data protection law defines a right similar to GDPR鈥檚 鈥渞ight to erasure,鈥 only Microsoft reports on Russian requests. Excluding the countries present in one data set but not the other left us with a list of EU and EEA countries and the UK and Switzerland, which have also enforced regulations analogous to GDPR."
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Right to be forgotten (RTBF) requests growth in Europe 2016-2022, by platform
In 2022, the "right to be forgotten" or "right to erasure" requests issued to Google decreased by around ** percent. Meanwhile, Bing saw an increase of about 5 percent. Over time, Google was responsible for approximately ** percent of the requests during the analyzed period.
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