Four months after Europeans gained the right to petition Google Inc. to alter the search results that pop up with their names, the European Commission has begun offering guidelines for how European courts should handle such “right to be forgotten” complaints.

In a press release issued on Sept. 18, a self-described “working party” of data protection regulators from across Europe announced new initiatives to ensure the consistent handling of requests to suppress information from search results.

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