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. 

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.

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

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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If you are to punish a man retributively you must injure him. If you are to reform him you must improve him. And men are not improved by injuries. (George Bernard Shaw)

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.

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 haven't tackled Yahoo yet and I'm still working on Bing. Based on my own personal experience and experiences of others they appear to be an absolute shitemare to get stuff removed as they just reject everything as "public interest" - I've tried them twice now. 

First time they refused due to this unquantifiable "public interest" tag. The second time I went back to them after Google removed my links and used that in an attempt to have some leverage "Look, Google removed them" and again was pushed back due to "public interest" which they never elaborate on and their email is a no-reply one so you can't follow it up.

This time I raised a case with ICO about it but they're so horrendously back-logged that I'm still waiting for them to get back in touch, I raised the case in about mid-April 2025, when I chased it up in June they advise they were just picking up cases from January so I'm not expecting much until probably October at this point.

Either way, here is the link for the Bing removal form: https://www.bing.com/webmaster/tools/eu-privacy-request

I personally found the form to be a more messy and a pain to fill out compared to Google's but that's just me.

Hello. I wanted to get some practical info from those of you who have approached Bing and Yahoo requesting URL removals. I have been successful with Google and now want to turn my fire on them. Is there a form used by either or both that I need to complete, or site I need to visit to apply? Not sure how this process works or where to go to get it started. Any help much appreciated. Thanks.
RM

Just updating everyone regarding Operation: Bing

Sent off my request to ICO this morning, according to the auto-response it could take up to around a week to get assigned and receive a reference number etc.

Aside from the main bits on the report the bulk of my request stated the following:

My offence has been spent as of 2023 and under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act I am afforded the opportunity to carry on my life as a ‘normal’ individual. These search results being active has prevented me from obtaining employment, housing, engaging in public activities, as well as further facilitating embarrassment and harassment. I am not a public figure, I’m not famous in any way. My offence is over half a decade old at this point and has been legally classed as spent for over 2 years so I’d reject the notion of it still being in public interest.

Additionally Bing have denied my request on the basis of the EU GDPR which has no relevance within the UK as we operate on the UK GDPR scheme.

Furthermore, Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) entitles me to live my life in privacy which these results contravene.

Other search engines such as Google have accepted my request and have removed all results I have requested. Bing seem reluctant due to ‘public interest’ however they will not quantify that nor is there an escalation procedure in place for it to be removed.

So we'll see how it pans out, I'll be sure to get folks updated on the progress even if only for posterity.

Yeah, I'll be putting a report to ICO together on Monday.

I've been burned heavily by them before when they made a massive mess and were just basically "sorry lol". This was earlier before I knew more about the removals process I went to ICO about a few websites posting about me and then got in touch with the people directly saying "Khafka wants you to remove the posts about him". My crime being a sex offence you can imagine how that went down with those websites...