The right to be forgotten, this bane of Google in Europe is growing up and is now settling in Russia. The Russian parliament has just made it compulsory for each search engine accessible from the country to offer a form allowing citizens to request the deletion of results concerning them and being judged as presenting incorrect or obsolete information.
The search engine concerned by the request may however refuse the dereference of the results if it considers the request abusive, nevertheless, it may then be prosecuted for refusing to grant the right to be forgotten to a user and could be penalized for a fine of 100,000 rubles if the refusal is not justified. Some players, like Yandex, have already expressed their fears of seeing a flood of requests, just like Google was when the first form of this type was implemented in Europe.
