A German court forced the removal of a Wikipedia article’s history

Re:A German court forced the removal of a Wikipedia article’... by vesinisa on Thursday April 11, 2019 @07:55PM (#19640518)

There is actually already an ongoing collaboration between Wikipedia and Internet Archive to snapshot almost every single web page to Wayback Machine as soon as they are referenced on any Wikipedia site:

https://blog.archive.org/2018/10/01/more-than-9-million-brok...

The pages are being archived at a rate of 20 million URLs/week.

PS. This is not free. Internet Archive is one of those great online institutions that needs a steady stream of donations to buy the hardware that keeps the project going.

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Re:A German court forced the removal of a Wikipedia article’... by vonmoltke on Thursday April 11, 2019 @07:59PM (#19640539)

What's going to happen when someone like this professor decides to swing the GDPR hammer at Internet Archive to get the rotted page purged first?

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Re:A German court forced the removal of a Wikipedia article’... by baroffoos on Thursday April 11, 2019 @08:27PM (#19640728)

I think thats why archive.is exists. They do not act on deletion requests iirc.

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Re:A German court forced the removal of a Wikipedia article’... by kobieyc on Thursday April 11, 2019 @09:00PM (#19640926)

GDPR applies to EU-citizens, so I think if the Internet Archive contains material referencing an EU citizen they would need to comply.

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Re:A German court forced the removal of a Wikipedia article’... by Googler1234 on Thursday April 11, 2019 @09:04PM (#19640950)

How does the EU can enforce anything over an organization that does not have a legal presence in the EU? At best they can force their ISPs to block the website in their countries, but I can't see how much more they can do.

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Re:A German court forced the removal of a Wikipedia article’... by soneil on Friday April 12, 2019 @05:18AM (#19643302)

I believe archive.org does have a physical presence in Amsterdam, which may not help in this context.

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Re:A German court forced the removal of a Wikipedia article’... by oh_sigh on Thursday April 11, 2019 @09:21PM (#19641055)

They don't - OP is incorrect in their understanding of GDPR.

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