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It's interesting that the right to be forgotten only applies to search engines (as far as I can tell). So in theory someone could scrape the first few pages of
by TimJRobinson 12y ago
It's interesting that the right to be forgotten only applies to search engines (as far as I can tell). So in theory someone could scrape the first few pages of results for most names in the world (or those who are somewhat famous at least), keep track of what results have been completely removed and create a site listing all of them.
I could even see this being a business model by selling that data to Private investigators, credit agencies, the media etc. It's a little unethical though could be useful if say politicians or unscrupulous people try and re-write history to make themselves look better.
- jfoster 12y agoIt would make a lot more sense if the right to be forgotten applied to regular sites first and foremost. A news article that unfairly damages someone's reputation would eventually drop off Google if the original article were removed.
- happyscrappy 12y agoThe rest of the world still sees the actual search results as does anyone who goes to google.com. Your censorship idea would have to disconnect Europe from the rest of the internet to work.
- arcatek 12y agoThe point is that the search results would quickly disappear if the original pages were removed (since the search engine would remove them from its index too). It's not the case because it's easier to target the search engines rather than the N websites which have published a story.
- lotsofmangos 12y agoThis ruling is unlinking of factual data. It is industrialized bowdlerization of historical research tools. And your proposal would be industrialized bowdlerization of the actual texts.
- trt 12y agoIt applies to every person responsible for the processing of personal data. See Article 12(b) of the EU's Data Protection Directive. [0] Most parties would however be able to rely on one of the grounds for processing listed in Article 7, such as consent, or as is the case for news media the Article 9 exception for freedom of expression. In the Google Spain case the CJEU held that Google needs its own ground/exception to publish personal data. (Rather than saying "NYT is allowed to process these personal data, and therefore so am I") [0] http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:31995L0046 http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:319...
- Widdershin 12y agoIt would be hilarious if Google then scraped your list of removed search listings.