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