I think the biggest problems might involve users who have been trashed for one reason or another, justified or not.
Fred > Is the worry primarily around article-space, or around Wikipedia users? > There's already > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Courtesy_vanishing, though it > would have to be made somewhat more rigorous (and no longer a mere > courtesy) if it were an actual legal obligation. > > As a non-lawyer, I would consider our uses in article-space to all fall > under the exceptions, though I wouldn't want to speculate on whether a > court would agree. At least in principle, Wikipedia articles only cover > material of historical, cultural, scientific, artistic, sociological, > etc. interest. If anything, we're more often criticized for upholding > that viewpoint too strongly; vociferous complaints about Wikipedia's > "deletionism" seem to pop up in nearly every external discussion of > Wikipedia. Though this may lower the bar for people wanting information > removed from Wikipedia, by providing an alternate route from the usual > libel-law approach that doesn't require them to prove libel, so might be > bad pragmatically. > > -Mark > > > On 2/11/12 7:42 AM, Samuel Klein wrote: >> Forwarding from internal. >> The right to vanish... or a part of it... proposed as law. >> >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> From: Richard Symonds<richard.symo...@wikimedia.org.uk> >> Date: Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 11:46 AM >> Subject: [Internal-l] Right to be Forgotten >> To: interna...@lists.wikimedia.org >> >> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16677370 >> >> A new law promising internet users the "right to be forgotten" will be >> proposed by the European Commission on Wednesday. >> >> It says people will be able to ask for data about them to be deleted >> and firms will have to comply unless there are "legitimate" grounds to >> retain it. >> >> The move is part of a wide-ranging overhaul of the commission's 1995 >> Data Protection Directive. >> >> Richard Symonds >> Office& Development Manager >> Wikimedia UK >> ---------------------------------------- >> >> As Bence noted: >> >>> You can find the December 2011 draft at >>> http://epic.org/privacy/intl/EU-Privacy-Regulation-29-11-2011.pdf >>> (Article 15 is the relevant part). >>> The stated exceptions do not include expense or technical difficulty, >>> but include >>> " except to the extent that the retention of the personal data is >>> necessary: >>> (a) for exercising the right of freedom of expression in accordance >>> with Article 79; >>> or >>> (b) for historical, statistical and scientific research purposes in >>> accordance with >>> Article 83; or >>> (c) for compliance with a legal obligation to retain the data by Union >>> or Member >>> State law to which the controller is subject; this law shall meet an >>> objective of >>> public interest, respect the essence of the right to the protection >>> of personal >>> data and be proportionate to the legitimate aim pursued; or >>> (d) in the cases referred to in paragraph 4." >>> >>> I'll leave it to the lawyers to decide how this affects Wikimedia >>> (which is hosted >>> outside the EEA) and whether any of the exceptions can be applied to >>> it. >> _______________________________________________ >> foundation-l mailing list >> foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l >> > > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
