Wikipedia Reports 50 Links From Google 'Forgotten', Issues Transparency Report 81
netbuzz (955038) writes The Wikimedia Foundation this morning reports that 50 links to Wikipedia from Google have been removed under Europe's "right to be forgotten" regulations, including a page about a notorious Irish bank robber and another about an Italian criminal gang. "We only know about these removals because the involved search engine company chose to send notices to the Wikimedia Foundation. Search engines have no legal obligation to send such notices. Indeed, their ability to continue to do so may be in jeopardy. Since search engines are not required to provide affected sites with notice, other search engines may have removed additional links from their results without our knowledge. This lack of transparent policies and procedures is only one of the many flaws in the European decision."
Wikimedia now has a page listing all notifications that search listing were removed. itwbennett also wrote in with Wikimedia news this morning: the Wikimedia foundation published its first ever transparency report, detailing requests to remove or alter content (zero granted, ever) and content removed for copyright violations.
Quick slashdot editors! (Score:5, Funny)
Time to get beta forgotten!
About to be deleted (Score:5, Funny)
The funny thing is, both en pages were about to be deleted for lack of notoriety. Now will the all the media coverage, they have suddenly become notable, and my bet is both articles will be retained. Streisand effect at it's finest.
Re:Right to force others to use stone tools (Score:5, Funny)
Don't worry, the NSA isn't forgetting you, you're just required to forget some criminals. Hope that helps.
Re:As a European... (Score:5, Funny)
LOL, you know in general, that you are less cynical and paranoid than me is probably not a terrible thing.
I've just learned to go straight to the worst case scenario, and then give the world a little time to catch up. There's usually a 3-6 month lag time before people go from saying "you're a paranoid loon" to "holy crap". ;-)
My wife, however, still stands by paranoid loon most of the time.