EFF - Lumen (Chilling Effects)
I posted about EFF - the Electronic Frontier Foundation in 2011 when I was looking at copyright stuff. I subsequently looked at what was then the Chilling Effects Clearinghouse when I suspected that someone had made a complaint about something that I had posted.
This page is not about EFF - The Electronic Frontier Foundation itself.
This is what I found (approximately 12 July 2015):
The Lumen Database
There is a lot of information in this database. It is structured by topic. I think that I had found a reference to a complaint about me.
When I search the Lumen database for the complaint above I can find it but most of the record that appeared on the Chilling Effects website has been redacted. To gain access to the records you have to enter your email address and they will send you a single use link to the notice. I don't need to do this as I am pretty sure that it is the same complaint as it was made by my good friend in Saskatwan, Canada on 22 April 2012. Nothing was done as a consequence of the complaint, the post about "dubious business" was not taken down by Google and I didn't hear from anyone about it.
The business was very dubious and did not last long before it failed. Still, this did not stop the person running it "attacking" me for saying things about him which were confirmed by all I talked to who had done business with him.
At the time the blog post, early 2012, I was on the case of someone who I thought was running a dubious business. Talking to some of the people that this person had contact with, notebly his neighbours, bore out this theory. Later in 2015 he was once again attempting to get me to remove what I had posted about him. The stupid thing was that I didn't even live in Canada. This person also threatend to tell all the churches in Suffolk that I was a pervert!
What EFF (or someone else) say about The Lumen database:
SLAPP - Strategic lawsuit against public participation
This is a legal technique to intimidate a possible complainant such that if they do proceed in a suite the cost will be too prohibative for them to pursue the case.
When you complain to Google
Unless you have broken any laws then they are likely to do nothing.
Of course, complaining to Google does not have any bearing on the other search engines such as Bing and the search result will remain even if Google remove it!