Now that Google has begun processing (tens of thousands) of Right to be
forgotten claims from individuals, has the WMF [or any chapter] received
notification of any Wikimedia content being removed from search results?
Is there a plan on how to respond to these? Some (notably the BBC) have
Hi Nathan,
At the moment the WMF legal team is monitoring the situation. We have been
informed that we will receive notifications by Google of takedowns, but we
have not received any notifications that have resulted in a takedown of a
Wikipedia page to date. We're assessing the impact on the
Do you think that the right to be forgotten may change something in the
Wikipedia's sources and in the work done by volunteers to write Wikipedia?
Google announced that they will apply the right to be forgotten in Europe
and some names may disappear in the big search engine.
As I understand it, the right to be forgotten will only affect the
discoverability of content, rather than existence of content.
So if we rely on a source which says that person X did Y many years ago,
and X succeeds in invoking their right to be forgotten, then the source
will no longer appear
Yes, I know.
But I think that something will change for users writing content (no more
references in the main search engine) but also to discover copyright
infringements.
Regards
On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 3:11 PM, Chris Keating chriskeatingw...@gmail.com
wrote:
As I understand it, the right to
On 30/05/2014 14:11, Chris Keating wrote:
As I understand it, the right to be forgotten will only affect the
discoverability of content, rather than existence of content.
So if we rely on a source which says that person X did Y many years ago,
and X succeeds in invoking their right to be
