{"id":28141,"date":"2014-10-07T08:58:51","date_gmt":"2014-10-07T12:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=28141"},"modified":"2014-10-07T08:58:51","modified_gmt":"2014-10-07T12:58:51","slug":"when-the-right-to-be-forgotten-encounters-the-streisand-effect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2014\/10\/07\/when-the-right-to-be-forgotten-encounters-the-streisand-effect\/","title":{"rendered":"When the “right to be forgotten” encounters the Streisand Effect"},"content":{"rendered":"

At Techdirt<\/em>, Mike Masnick<\/a> reports on the first New York Times<\/em> articles to be removed from Google<\/em>‘s search indices under the European “right to be forgotten” regulations:<\/p>\n

Over the weekend, the NY Times<\/em> revealed that it is the latest publication to receive notification from Google<\/em> that some of its results will no longer show up for searches on certain people’s names, under the whole “right to be forgotten” nuttiness going on in Europe these days. As people in our comments have pointed out in the past, it’s important to note that the stories themselves aren’t erased from Google<\/em>‘s index entirely — they just won’t show up when someone searches on the particular name of the person who complained. Still, the whole effort is creating a bit of a Streisand Effect in calling new attention to the impacted articles.<\/p>\n

In this case, the NY Times<\/em> was notified of five articles that were caught up in the right to be forgotten process. Three of the five involved semi-personal stuff, so the Times<\/em> decided not to reveal what those stories were (even as it gently mocks Europe for not believing in free speech):<\/p>\n