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Is there a "right to be forgotten" in the USA?
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Not as a single federal right. The EU-style right to have search engines delist accurate news about you does not exist in the United States, largely because of the First Amendment, and Google does not honor such requests for U.S. results. What does exist is narrower. California residents can demand deletion of personal information a business holds about them (Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.105), and about twenty states offer a similar right. California's "eraser" law (Bus. & Prof. Code § 22581) lets minors remove content they themselves posted. Google will remove search results that expose your home address, phone number, email, bank or ID numbers, as well as nonconsensual intimate images and explicit deepfakes, and the TAKE IT DOWN Act forces platforms to remove intimate images within 48 hours of a valid request. Copyright (DMCA) covers content you created. Pick the mechanism that fits your situation with the free builder at https://takeitdown.agentexchange.work/request/privacy.
Sources: leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml? · leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml? · support.google.com/websearch/answer/9673730 · support.google.com/websearch/answer/6302812 · consumer.ftc.gov/consumer-alerts/2026/05/what-will-ftcs-enfo
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