What We Do

Forget Me assists with removing articles, comments, links, photos, videos and text on the internet that you find upsetting, false, defamatory, or having a negative impact on your professional or social life.

The service we offer is based on privacy rights embedded in legislation around the world. One of the best-known rights was established in 2018 is the Right to Erasure, known as The Right to be Forgotten.

The right is Article 17 of the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation.

Most of the requests for erasure we receive are submitted to search engines. However, what appears simple has turned out to be anything but. The search engines are reluctant to remove material from their sites, their stock response to any request is to refuse.

To appeal that refusal requires an in-depth knowledge of various laws and court rulings, guidance from the European Data Protection Board and national data protection authorities, an understanding of public policy formation, and familiarity of the balance between conflicting Articles in the Charter of Fundamental Rights in the European Union and the European Convention on Human Rights. 

Battling the global search engines can be exhausting, deflating, and with the aim to grind you down, unsuccessful. 

However, really understanding exactly what they are legally obliged to do is where we come in. Over the past six years working on cases, we have secured a successful removal rate in excess of 85%. In all these cases we worked on were from people who had already tried and failed in their own requests to remove information about themselves.