Here is another example of a post accessible via the IAJGS Records Access Alert emails. Details on how to access these alerts provided after the article.
This and many issues related to records “access” often come down to privacy versus freedom of information.
Another loss for search engines containing factual information-even if not current information.
On October 19, 2015 the Spanish Supreme Court in a ruling rejected a petition to have EL PAÍS remove information from its online archive that the petitioners viewed as detrimental to them. In the ruling, the justices said newspapers were not under the obligation to alter their archives in order to delete all references to the names of these individuals.
However, the ruling also said the newspapers have a responsibility to ensure that this information cannot be “easily” accessed through online search engines.
The story goes back 20 years to 1985 when EL PAÍS published a story about two people arrested on a drug trafficking charge. The article included information on their arrest, imprisonment and personal circumstances. This was before the world wide web existed. But in 2009, when the two people had served their time and their criminal records erased they found that some of the top search engines, such as Google led to the old newspaper stories. While lower jurisdiction courts found in favor of the plaintiffs to have the information not only not searchable but removed from the newspaper’s archives, the appeal to the Supreme Court rejected the need to alter the archive, but upheld the search engine ruling The Supreme Court said: ” The so-called right to be forgotten cannot entail a retrospective censorship of information that was originally published correctly.” OId news can’t be cancelled or altered as “digital archives are protected by freedom of information as they satisfy a public interest.”
This is another example of the continuing debate between the United States
To read the El Pais article in English see: http://elpais.com/elpais/2015/10/20/inenglish/1445336346_537716.html
Jan Meisels Allen
Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee
What do you think? Did the court get it right? Should privacy prevail? Should there be limits to Freedom of Information?
Accessing the IAJGS Records Access Alerts ...
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Editor’s Note: Access the first post in this ongoing series was IAJGS Public Records Access Alerts Now Available to Any Interested Person + EU Privacy Win
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