Russia Relaxes Its Right to be Forgotten

[jos]

Lawmakers earlier this month gave preliminary approval to a draft bill that would have allowed people to say what information they wanted deleted from search results without even specifying hyperlinks — giving their right a far greater reach than their European counterparts. Others created a website spoofing the bill by showing what the Russian Internet would look like were the law to be adopted in its original form. For example, when entering Russian President Vladimir Putin‘s name, the fake search engine only shows one Wikipedia entry about him. All other requests on the spoof site return only blank pages.

after a meeting last week with Internet companies and critics, legislators passed a second reading of the bill this Tuesday with several amendments that brought it closer to the European version.

The Russian bill now requires people to provide specific hyperlinks to the information about them they want removed.  In the old version of the bill, for example, a man would be able to request deletion of a report about his involvement in a drunken brawl. The search engine would then have to find all links containing references to this report, determine whether those references are inaccurate, dated or illegal, and if they are, delete them.

 

 

I think if former draft was held all politicians can just say wipe all scandals.. But i guess it is in some way against freedom of information

Source: http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2015/06/30/russia-relaxes-its-right-to-be-forgotten/

[blackadder]

The internet never forgets anything you want it to.

[ozziestig]

In Soviet Russia Internet forgets you!

[Delusional Phil]

We can't forget you if you still exist ...