[Advocacy Advisors] [Wikimedia-l] Transparency and "right to be forgotten" notices from search engines

[Pine W]

I see how you could read it that way,  but remember that to be included on
Wikipedia information should be notable and written in NPOV fashion, and
the BLP policy applies. If someone wants to contest information in their
BLP we have more subtle tools for handling disputes than pure removal,
although sometimes we will remove content.

Pine
On Aug 6, 2014 3:05 PM, "Trillium Corsage" <trillium2014 at yandex.com> wrote:

> I see I am not the only one who noticed what WMF Legal is doing, but I see
> it a different way than Nathan. I see it as the WMF intimidating and
> threatening those EU individuals who dare to to exercise their rights under
> the court's ruling. Brigham and Paulson are basically saying "just try it.
> We will Streisand you."
>
> Trillium Corsage
>
> 06.08.2014, 16:11, "Nathan" <email clipped>:
> > Thanks very much for this, Stephen and the legal team. I especially
> > appreciate that the WMF has decided to make public the specific
> > notifications of the use of the "Right to be forgotten" in the EU.[1]
> It's
> > interesting that the bulk of the suppression requests have come from a
> > single (ex?) Wikimedian targeting internal process pages of his home
> wiki.
> > Not shockingly, the RtF request is now in the top 5 results on a Google
> > search of that persons name.
> >
> > The NY Times covered the transparency report:
> >
> http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/08/06/wikipedia-details-government-data-requests/?src=twr
> >
> > [1]:
> >
> https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Notices_received_from_search_engines
> >
> > On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 6:15 AM, Stephen LaPorte <email clipped>
> > wrote:
> >>  Hi All,
> >>
> >>  The “right to be forgotten” has been the subject of much discussion and
> >>  debate (including on this list),[1] particularly following the May
> European
> >>  Court of Justice judgment ordering Google to delist some links related
> to a
> >>  Spanish citizen.[2] Since then, search engines have been receiving
> requests
> >>  to remove hundreds of thousands of URLs from search results. Google
> >>  recently released more information about its right to be forgotten
> >>  requests.[3]
> >>
> >>  The WMF legal team has been watching the “right to be forgotten” issue
> >>  closely and considering what legal strategies we should take going
> forward.
> >>  Today, the WMF published its first transparency report[4]—you can read
> more
> >>  in this blog post.[5] WMF held a press briefing announcing our
> strategy of
> >>  advocacy and transparency on link censorship. We will oppose what we
> see as
> >>  a misguided court decision that has resulted in a crude implementation
> of
> >>  the “right to be forgotten.” Lila has also issued a statement,[6] and,
> >>  Geoff, WMF’s general counsel, and Michelle Paulson, WMF's legal
> counsel,
> >>  have published a blog on the subject.[7] As the topic is of interest to
> >>  this group, we wanted to keep you informed of these recent legal
> >>  developments.
> >>
> >>  Thanks,
> >>  Stephen
> >>
> >>  [1]
> >>
> http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/advocacy_advisors/2014-June/000547.html
> ,
> >>
> >>
> http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/advocacy_advisors/2014-June/000539.html
> >>  [2]
> http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/ALL/?uri=CELEX:62012CJ0131
> >>  [3]
> >>
> https://docs.google.com/a/wikimedia.org/file/d/0B8syaai6SSfiT0EwRUFyOENqR3M/edit
> >>  [4] http://transparency.wikimedia.org/
> >>  [5]
> >>
> https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/08/06/wikimedia-foundation-releases-first-transparency-report/
> >>  [6]
> >>
> https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/08/06/european-court-decision-punches-holes-in-free-knowledge/
> >>   [7]
> >>
> https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/08/06/wikipedia-pages-censored-in-european-search-results/
> >>
> >>  --
> >>  Stephen LaPorte
> >>  Legal Counsel
> >>  Wikimedia Foundation
> >>
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> for,
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