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

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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