RTBF was a ludicrous concept before AI and these new crawlers.
Only EU bureaucracts would have the hubris to believe you could actually, comprehensively remove information from the Internet. Once something is spread, it is there, forever.
Only EU bureaucracts would have the hubris to believe you could actually, comprehensively remove information from the Internet. Once something is spread, it is there, forever.
RTBF is about getting companies to get rid of any trace of you so they cannot use that data, not removing all traces about you across the internet.
your take is misleading enough to be considered wrong. It's "don't use public information about me in search engines, I don't want people to find that information about me", not simply "don't use my information for marketing purposes"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_be_forgotten
first paragraph of the article: The right to be forgotten (RTBF) is the right to have private information about a person be removed from Internet searches and other directories in some circumstances. The issue has arisen from desires of individuals to "determine the development of their life in an autonomous way, without being perpetually or periodically stigmatized as a consequence of a specific action performed in the past". The right entitles a person to have data about them deleted so that it can no longer be discovered by third parties, particularly through search engines.
Really depends on the content. Tons of websites are going down everyday, link rot is a real thing. Internet archive or people don't save nearly everything.
Something I should do more often is saving mhtml copies of webpages I find interesting.
> Something I should do more often is saving mhtml copies of webpages I find interesting.
It never meant that you have the right to ask "the Internet" as a whole to scrub you from all possible records, that's indeed ludicrous. And if someone took it to mean that and they were pushing for it, they were just confused, no serious law ever proposed that.
https://www.mycleanslate.co.uk/
What they usually do
- Spam Google with the name to bury content
- Send legal threads and use GDPR
They have legit use cases, but are often used by convicted or shady businessmen, politicians, and scammers to hide their earlier misdeeds.