[Foundation-l] Request for your input: biographies of living people
John at Darkstar
vacuum at jeb.no
Wed Mar 4 09:52:23 UTC 2009
In Norway its covered in "Lov om behandling av personopplysninger
(personopplysningsloven)" §7; Forholdet til ytringsfriheten (Relation to
freedom of speech) [http://www.lovdata.no/all/tl-20000414-031-001.html#7]
It is an exception for "kunstneriske, litterære eller journalistiske,
herunder opinionsdannende, ..." or artistic, litterary and journalistic,
including opinion building purposes.
John
Lars Aronsson skrev:
> Tomasz Ganicz wrote:
>
>> least in Poland at some legal risk. In Poland there is a law
>> that a person can always ask for removing his/her personal data
>> from any electronic database (except govermental ones).
>
> There is a similar law in Sweden (Personuppgiftslagen, PUL), but
> it has an exception for the freedom of the press and similar
> journalistic purposes ("det journalistiska undantaget"), and this
> exception is always referred to for websites similar to Wikipedia.
>
> The Norwegian law apparently has a similar exception, that also
> covers opinion pieces (opinionsdannende). The Danish law
> apparently refers directly to article 10 (freedom of expression)
> of the European Convention on Human Rights.
>
> What you could do is to ask Polish journalists how they operate
> newspaper websites under this law, and how they (as guardians of
> the freedom of the press) would react if the Polish Wikipedia was
> censored in this way. Perhaps they should write a newspaper
> article about how this musical artist tries to hide her real age.
>
> This doesn't necessarily bring an answer to the question, but
> establishing a good link with journalists is always useful.
>
>
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