The Wall Street Journal reported on how Google decides on what to remove based on the EU’s Right To Be Forgotten (RTBF) mandate.

It requires Google to remove content from their search results when the content is harmful and no longer relevant – it actually gets way more complex than that.

The WSJ documents that Google has meetings every Wednesday to make decisions on what to remove and what not to remove based on the RTBF requests and submissions. And the decision is pretty much in Google’s hand.

It is a very manual process, requiring Googlers to discuss each on a case by case basis.

Here is a chart from the WSJ on the removals:

I wonder how one gets to work on Google’s RTBF decision making team?

Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.