[Foundation-l] Fwd: Right to be Forgotten

[Fred Bauder]

> On Sat, 11 Feb 2012 11:25:56 -0700 (MST), "Fred Bauder"
> <fredbaud at fairpoint.net> wrote:
>> I think the biggest problems might involve users who have been trashed
>> for one reason or another, justified or not.
>>
>> Fred
>>
>
> My understanding is that the legislation is not so much about users
> (which
> we can handle anyway), but about notable persons which have some
> information about them leaked into media and they want toi remove this
> information. I remember when I was still an admin in Russian Wikipedia, I
> had a long conversation with an admin of a website of a rock star, who
> wanted to change the birth year in the article on the person (basically,
> making her five years younger) even though we had sources claiming the
> opposite. This did not happen, since I accidentally knew I was younger
> than
> the star, and the proposed year would make her younger than me, but I
> think
> the legislation in this case would require to have the information on the
> birth year deleted from all sources (and, obciously, also from our
> articles). I would like to hear a legal opinion though.
>
> Cheers
> Yaroslav
>

Anything that produces a substantial expansion of a court's docket, and
requires close examination of a mass of material, will prove very
unpopular.

Fred