Hello. I have been playing 'whack-a-mole' all week finding, almost daily, new listings of my case and then approaching google to get them removed. One set of particularly stubborn URLs relates to an online site called 'madebyredrose'. Totally unlawful and potentially risking people's safety, they list anyone and everyone who has been convicted of any kind of sexual offence. Has anyone had any dealings with this group? Are they deliberately reshuffling URLs to circumvent the 'right to be forgotten' and is there a way to appeal beyond google and actually go after this group itself due to the unlawful nature of what they are doing? It is starting to get me down, to be honest. Having to do a daily trawl of the public reporting of my awful mess when it has been spent for years is a task I can do without. I would be interested to hear anyone's experiences or ideas about possible next steps. Thanks
RM

I've been caught up with them too. 

I've spoken about it on this thread here and actually approached Police Scotland about it as the website and the listing for me was set up after I'd been removed from the registry and my sentence became spent.

https://forum.unlock.org.uk/Topic35501-3.aspx

The short answer is: The police didn't care.

I don't believe they're intentionally doing it to circumvent anything, without sounding like a bit of a dick - Looking at the rest of the website and the way it is has been setup I don't believe they're smart enough to achieve that and this is all basically just circumstance/accidental of the backend of the CMS system they use.

What I have noticed is it is a singular number suffix at the end of the URL which is what causes Google to re-list it. The website is setup using Wordpress and the number suffix is linked to a category, so theoretically they have setup a bunch of categories which are linked using a number ID, I guess it just depends how many categories they have and how many are linked to a specific article. 

The URLs are all the same except the number at the end, in my case it's like this: https://madebyredrose.co.uk/abuser/[MY-NAME]?category=18

I've had 14 numbers removed so far as well as a base-listing.

If it helps, the numbers for me have been: 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 22, 23 - Note that these did not appear in sequential order but I arranged them this way for ease of reading.

I also tried to raise the case with Google that given the article URL is still in essence the same could they not just do a wildcard removal like https://madebyredrose.co.uk/abuser/[MY-NAME]?category=* but they never really acknowledged it and just continue to keep removing any URLs I send so not sure about that moving forward.

If this is all related to a particular sub-domain, it might be worth trying the ICO about that. Regardless of whether you think this is deliberate, it's still happening, so maybe the ICO would be interested in seeing whether it is a delibrate attempt to deny the right to be forgotten. The worst they can do is say no. 

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Hi again. Thanks to those of you who have posted with some helpful thoughts/advice. A further follow up query. As mentioned, Google removed some historic URLs as per my request and when further sites appeared, I responded to that original email from them and these too were promptly removed - sometimes within a matter of minutes. However, a few more appeared and I replied to the Google email again (which worked on several previous occasions) only to receive nothing. I put in another request using the Google Form and not heard anything back yet either. Has anyone else experienced this? It is very frustrating having finally got a response and multiple links removed only to then be 'blanked' / ignored and have to resort to putting in an entirely new request via their online removals form.
Thanks
RM

I think there must be a backlog or something as another URL popped up for me about 3 weeks so sent my wee email off as usual and heard nothing back (I followed it up about 5 days ago). They are typically very quick and I think maybe 2-3 days is the longest I've had to wait so this is out of the norm, given you seem to be experiencing the same I reckon they do just have some backlog or something.

Huzzah! 

Just got an email this morning confirming the removal of the URL, so yeah, must have just been a backlog or something! Fingers crossed you get something soon. 

Feck off.

So a new Facebook page has popped up and slapped me on it a week or so ago. Requested for it to be removed via Google but the page doesn't have any information about the dates and how it happened years ago so it looks fresh despite my sentence being spent since 2023. They also appear to have somehow got hold of my "new" name (although spelled my last name wrong lol). Shitebags, man.

Between this and that Made By Rose website I do wonder where they're pulling the information from? Seems weird and a bit sad if they're just trawling through years of newspaper articles for this stuff to post.

Yes, after a couple of years of relative calm (only 1 single reference to be found by top-level search and another discoverable by a bit of digging), I was dismayed to see multiple FB hits pop up.

 They all seem to be associated with a group called "O-C Exposure Australia".  A small consolation is that there doesn't seen to be any personal animus (no recent comments etc.) so I think it's just a data dump. 

In a way I am not really any worse off than I was before this recent activity,   so I am going to sit tight for a while and see if they drop off the first few pages of results.

Aye, when I looked at it aside from 2 comments and a couple of emoji reactions there was nothing, really. Certainly nowhere near the amount of stuff on the original FB posts about me - Which, in a surprising but nice twist of fate is gone completely. They closed their entire account down or it was possibly banned, I'm not 100% sure but either way it's gone from FB. 

I've put in for Google to remove the current FB result which I suspect they will do and hopefully just through time it'll filter away. One thing I have noticed though and not sure how to address it is when you search my name there's currently 3 results: The main FB post of this new account, and 2 other posts from this account which aren't about me but the wee blurb description in the Google results is about me, like it's pulling the wrong data or something. I'm hoping as it's a new account it'll sort itself out over time but if anyone has any ideas I'm all ears!  

I have just found a new red rose link appear with a new index number so have sent off a request to Google to get it removed.
They must re-index the database every so often giving the articles new subject id's
Just got to keep checking!