Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2005 17:25:35 -0500 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: Chris Hodgins <chodgins@cis.strath.ac.uk> Cc: vandrewlevich@momsandkids.org Subject: Re: favor Message-ID: <4203F65F.4080600@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <4203EFE8.6060900@cis.strath.ac.uk> References: <200502042006.j14K6Ni1031241@mail5.atl.registeredsite.com> <4203DEE9.6080302@mac.com> <4203EFE8.6060900@cis.strath.ac.uk>
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Chris Hodgins wrote: > Chuck Swiger wrote: [ ... ] > Google does offer a way to remove posts that you have made from its index: > > http://www.google.co.uk/googlegroups/help.html#9 Notice the part which says: "Messages posted by other people By its very nature, Usenet consists of information posted by many people. Google does not monitor or control the content of this information. Instead, we simply provide access to the public forum in which people post their comments. Accordingly, if you are concerned about a message that someone has posted, you need to resolve that problem directly with the person who posted it. Except in extreme circumstances, Google will not act upon an individual's request to remove another person's messages. We firmly believe it is not Google's role to resolve disputes among the users who have posted millions of messages on Usenet, nor would it be possible to fulfill that role if we chose to undertake it." > IANAL but I think it would be interesting to know what the legal > implications are here. Could it be a legal requirement that you can > request that your data is removed? The situation is analogous to writing a letter to a newspaper, having it printed in the op/ed section, and then you asking your local library to discard the entire editoral section for that day. Even if the library were to agree, there were thousands of other copies made and the neighboring towns very probably have copies of that day's paper in their library archives, as well, so what's the point? A newspaper doesn't have any legal obligation to hunt down and remove all of the copies of their paper which contain the letter you wrote. Likewise, if you don't want your name to appear in the archive of a public forum, don't send content to a public forum. -- -Chuck
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