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 forgotten", then the source
will no longer appear in search engine results. The source, whether offline
or online, will continue to exist and will continue to be a valid reference.
My understanding may well be wrong, and if there is anything that
summarises this issue as it affects Wikimedians I would be really
interested to read it.
Chris
Its the compilation of such data that is the issue. A newspaper may
record that X was fined for jaywalking in 1976, another newspaper may
record that they were in court for not paying taxes in 1982. Someone or
organization that goes about and collates all of those snippets of
information to write a report on X is data processing, it does not
matter whether the collection of the data is manual or not. The issue
then comes down to whether such information is made available for
retrieval. I'd assume that WP articles fulfill all the necessary
requirements.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Protection_Directive#Content