The following types of content can be removed
from Google for searches under individual names:
from Google for searches under individual names:
✔ Undesirable, inappropriate or damaging search suggestions or autocomplete entries.
✔ Spent criminal convictions (explained at https://www.gov.uk/guidance/rehabilitation-periods).
✔ People with criminal convictions who received sentences of 4 years or under, where the convicted person has successfully completed their licence and supervision period.
✔ People with criminal convictions who received sentences of over 4 years, more than 10 years ago (EXCLUDING serious violent, sexual or terrorism offences under Schedule 18).
✔ People who have been acquitted or had charges dropped, i.e. evidentially false allegations (we can obtain copy of criminal record if required to evidence this).
✔ Attack websites, e.g. those established for stalking or harassment purposes against a person, or simply to unreasonably damage their reputation in the eyes of other people.
✔ Company closures affecting people, where the company was a separate entity from the named director(s), and where we can evidence that they are now working in a different industry.
✔ Missing persons reports where we can evidence that we are instructed by the actual person named in the report.
✔ Personal information republished e.g. historic CCJ's or bankruptcy, non-government electoral roll websites and company director information sites.
✔ Public figures whose name are being used to generate traffic to non-consented or unrelated content, e.g. clothing models whose names are used to link to adult content, or business people whose name is used to link to and endorse dubious, unrelated, forex trading platforms.
✔ Unwanted or alarming content which appears in search results because Google's algorithms think it is relevant, but which is not about the person beings searched and doesn't name them e.g. similar crime reports, articles about relatives, offensive blogs about people with similar names etc.
✔ Damaging or Embarrassing publicity, of other various kinds e.g. relationship breakdowns, inheritance disputes or news stories that cause shame, bullying or harassment and regret (even if they were initially consented to).
✔ Spent criminal convictions (explained at https://www.gov.uk/guidance/rehabilitation-periods).
✔ People with criminal convictions who received sentences of 4 years or under, where the convicted person has successfully completed their licence and supervision period.
✔ People with criminal convictions who received sentences of over 4 years, more than 10 years ago (EXCLUDING serious violent, sexual or terrorism offences under Schedule 18).
✔ People who have been acquitted or had charges dropped, i.e. evidentially false allegations (we can obtain copy of criminal record if required to evidence this).
✔ Attack websites, e.g. those established for stalking or harassment purposes against a person, or simply to unreasonably damage their reputation in the eyes of other people.
✔ Company closures affecting people, where the company was a separate entity from the named director(s), and where we can evidence that they are now working in a different industry.
✔ Missing persons reports where we can evidence that we are instructed by the actual person named in the report.
✔ Personal information republished e.g. historic CCJ's or bankruptcy, non-government electoral roll websites and company director information sites.
✔ Public figures whose name are being used to generate traffic to non-consented or unrelated content, e.g. clothing models whose names are used to link to adult content, or business people whose name is used to link to and endorse dubious, unrelated, forex trading platforms.
✔ Unwanted or alarming content which appears in search results because Google's algorithms think it is relevant, but which is not about the person beings searched and doesn't name them e.g. similar crime reports, articles about relatives, offensive blogs about people with similar names etc.
✔ Damaging or Embarrassing publicity, of other various kinds e.g. relationship breakdowns, inheritance disputes or news stories that cause shame, bullying or harassment and regret (even if they were initially consented to).