Technology giant Google has deleted several controversial stories from its search engine as a new law came into being. The European Data Protection Regulation, Article 17 includes the ‘right to be forgotten and to erasure’ came into force since yesterday and this has made Google to remove the selected stories from its search engine to avoid unnecessary.

The removed content include, a story about Dougie McDonald, who was a Scottish top-flight football referee who was found to have lied for granting a penalty in a Celtic v Dundee United match; a story about Tesco workers posting stories on social media attacking their workers; a story about a couple caught having sex on a Virgin train; and a story about a Muslim man who accused Cathay Pacific, the airline, of refusing to employ him because of his name.

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Other web portals like BBC and The Guardian also have removed few stories from their search engine however MailOnline did not remove them and claimed this deletion as 'burning of books in library.' Google has sent notification to MailOnline of which links it has decided to remove. MailOnline generally publishes list of articles deleted by from Google's European search results to make people aware.

Nevertheless, these deleted stories can be traced while using the US version of the Google. The European Court of Justice which is reckoned as the Supreme Court of Europe last month ruled that every individual has the right to ask for the removal content and Google was flooded with thousands of requests. Currently Google has 50,000 requests in pending.

(AW: Vamshi)