I'm not even aware that we'd be subject to GPDR.
We already allow removal of personal information in some cases (outing by
others, accidentally revealing one's IP address, etc.). If we were going to
allow it in any case that doesn't happen today, that would need to be
agreed to by the community, in which case the best thing to do would be an
on-wiki RfC.
Todd
On Sun, May 27, 2018 at 3:32 PM, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I'm a big fan of the GDPR and why it had to be
created. (I'm doing a lot of
the bureaucratic work on the tech side at the day job and am getting very
used to thinking of ways something could constitute Personally Identifying
Information.)
But I'm wondering how we'll approach it for the Wikimedia sites. Not just
the log data - but the content.
We already have problems with Right To Be Forgotten, and well-cited content
being removed from the search engines.
What do we have in place to deal with this when - not if - we get GDPR
requests to remove information about a person from the site?
I don't mean just the letter of the law, in the EU or the US - I mean also,
how we can handle this *right*. Because there are multiple competing
legitimate interests here, and the editing communities tend to take a lot
more care than they're strictly required to by law, because we are here to
get things right. (This is why our DMCA numbers are ridiculously low for a
top 10 site, for example.)
Is anyone keeping track of what the communities are doing, as well as WMF
itself?
- d.
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