28.05.2018 00:32 David Gerard kirjutas:
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*.
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Is anyone keeping track of what the communities are doing, as well as WMF
itself?
Just a note based on the discussion we had in Wikimedia Estonia, lot of
smaller Wikipedia editions have quite low threshold for notability and
some of the articles end up almost doxing some hardly noteworthy person.
I am not sure how common this is, but already before GDPR I have
encouraged some people to write on discussion pages, that there is lot
of rather unimportant information in the article that should be edited
for encyclopedic clarity and unnecessary parts removed. However, as we
know, everything still remains in the article history and is technically
found, so from GDPR point of view this is not maybe enough to improve
data protection to the amount the new regulation expects to.
Also, in GDPR itself, there are exemptions for a) journalism and b)
historical research or "freedom of expression in every democratic
society" and "archiving purposes in the public interest, scientific or
historical research purposes". These should generally apply to Wikipedia
and most Wikimedia projects, however it is not clear what is the right
policy for data in revision history and discussion pages, and what are
the notability criteria that should be applied. But this was so already
before GDPR and most complaints are from people who actually are
noteworthy and probably fit under either journalism or historical
research category or even both, so there is nothing more to do than
notice that notability criteria may need some more clarity and raising
of the threshold and start a discussion to improve the criteria.
Any more ideas?
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