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May 16, 2014updated 10 Jul 2014 1:08pm

Paedophile, politician and doctor in bids to erase internet past using EU court ‘right to be forgotten’

By PA Mediapoint

A British politician seeking re-election has made requests to Google to have results removed from the search engine following the "right to be forgotten" ruling.

The move follows a ruling by the European Court of Justice – the EU's highest court – that people had the "right to be forgotten", and could ask Google and other search engine operators to remove articles which appeared in search results which tarnished their reputations.

The politician has asked for stories linking him to a scandal to be removed from searches related to him, sources confirmed.

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