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Update to the Boards.ie Terms and Conditions

Dav · 2012-05-17 16:21:55

Hello all, We're looking at rolling out some updates to our Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy, so I've attaced them below for review before they come into effect. There aren't very many significant changes, but the biggest one is that if there you feel you are being defamed or your copyright infringed upon, you need…

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#52 13-05-2014 9:17pm

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Dav wrote: »

The "right to be forgotten" stuff is not addressed in these Terms as this is an EU Law level discussion at the moment and until such a time as it's been decided either way, it doesn't make a lot of sense to include it until then. I've spoken to the Data Commissioner very briefly about it in person and he's not sure himself what way it's going, so we'll cross that bridge when we get to it, but we'll be keeping an eye obviously.

Just for Search engines at the moment.

EU court backs 'right to be forgotten': Google must amend results on request

The top European court has backed the "right to be forgotten" and said Google must delete "inadequate, irrelevant or no longer relevant" data from its results when a member of the public requests it.
The test case privacy ruling by the European Union's court of justice against Google Spain was brought by a Spanish man, Mario Costeja González, after he failed to secure the deletion of an auction notice of his repossessed home dating from 1998 on the website of a mass circulation newspaper in Catalonia.

The judges said they had found that the inclusion of links in the Google results related to an individual who wanted them removed "on the grounds that he wishes the information appearing on those pages relating to him personally to be 'forgotten' after a certain time" was incompatible with the existing data protection law.

They said the data that had to be erased could "appear to be inadequate, irrelevant or no longer relevant or excessive … in the light of the time that had elapsed". They added that even accurate data that had been lawfully published initially could "in the course of time become incompatible with the directive".

The ruling makes clear that a search engine such as Google has to take responsibility as a "data controller" for the content that it links to and may be required to purge its results even if the material was previously published legally. Data protection lawyers said the ruling meant that Google could no longer be regarded legally as a "neutral intermediary"

Legal experts said the ruling could give the go-ahead to deletion requests of material including photographs of embarrassing teenage episodes and even insults on social media websites and could lead to a rethink in the way they handle links to content on the web.

http://www.siliconrepublic.com/digital-life/item/36861-eu-court-rules-that-search/

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