The Russian Parliament has approved a bill that will require online search engines to remove search results about specific individuals at their request, regardless if the person is a public figure or not, NDTV reports. Though somewhat similar to the EU’s right-to-be-forgotten concept, the Russian version has no balancing test for the public’s right to information. Individuals may request that search engines remove search results if the data about them is “no longer relevant,” the report states. Russia’s largest search engine Yandex said last month that such a law would impede “people’s access to important and reliable information,” while Russian lawmaker Leonid Levin defended the bill, saying it “will create an efficient tool for clamping down on blackmail and Internet bullying.”
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