When Google first started de-linking certain content from its European search results, in the wake of a privacy ruling by the EU’s top court, the casual observer would have been forgiven for thinking that the only people applying for this de-linking were pedophiles and crooked politicians. It was almost as if Google was pushing cherry-picked examples of ludicrous requests into the public eye, in an attempt to prove the system was unworkable — indeed, the European Commission accused it of doing just that.

But things have moved on. [company]Google[/company] chairman Eric Schmidt has assembled a suitably varied panel of expert advisors to help the company cope with the ruling, which says people have the right to ask search engines to de-link information about them that’s out-of-date and unwelcome, unless there’s a good public-interest reason for not doing so (this is more a “right to be de-linked” than a “right…