Re:Italian Supreme Court: News "expires", online archives wo...
by a_humean on Wednesday September 21, 2016 @11:04AM
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It could be something as simple as you need to pay a fee for a search query in order to get hold of filtered results, but with no indication that there will be any extra results to find.
eg: Search 'John Smith Liverpool UK Murder' and you get nothing interesting and no indication that anything has been filtered. However there is an option that is always available no matter the query to buy this search query for say $1-$50. If you pay up you get the filtered results, which may happen to show that John Smith was once accused of murder many years ago. If you are an investigator, researcher, or journalist then there should be a flat single fee or free access to filtered results.
Probably, there should be a legal mechanism similar to US FoIA regarding the personal information collected by non-governmental entities, in accordance to which it could be possible to request the dossier collected by a company on you and use it as a protection from discrimination (as in your first example).