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Re:The use of Europe’s “right to be forgotten” privacy law h... by PJDK on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @06:55AM (#21069480)
For context, the BBC publishes a list of articles that are hit by this ruling.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/internet/authors/e7896818-cd4d-3...

After a quick click around some examples of what is being "forgotten"

Some people smugglers - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/8093741.stm

This review of best cities - https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20151124-the-best-city-...

This story about someone not being entitled to privacy because of her roll in public life - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-18189668

This story about a former cabinet minister's troubles (lots of stuff about Chris Huhne on the list) - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-25814537

Related to above, Nick Clegg would like Chris Huhne to return to cabinet - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-20978489

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Re:The use of Europe’s “right to be forgotten” privacy law h... by malms on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @07:00AM (#21069507)
how is that creating such a list not serve the opposite purpose of the law ??
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Re:The use of Europe’s “right to be forgotten” privacy law h... by jefftk on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @07:03AM (#21069525)
The idea is generally to keep things from showing up when you search for people by name, not to remove the information entirely.
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Re:The use of Europe’s “right to be forgotten” privacy law h... by malms on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @08:03AM (#21069893)
So the law is only for google ? That make 0 sense
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Re:The use of Europe’s “right to be forgotten” privacy law h... by jefftk on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @08:18AM (#21069993)
Someone could make a Right to be Forgotten request to the BBC for the news article, but they'd need to meet a higher standard. The listing is of ones where people have asked to have the result removed from Google.
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