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What does "right-to-forget" have anything to do with the separatist pulling info from (supposedly) his own website?

I don't see Google or any other search engine involved in this situation at all.

Stop conflating things - that someone can post content and remove it of their own volition while Wayback Machine captures it is not germane to the discussion of whether it's ok to be forgotten. Now if the separatist had issued a removal request to WM, that'd be a different story.




The law is not restricted to search engines:

> The EU defines ‘data controllers’ as ‘people or bodies that collect and manage personal data.’ (WP)


It's not his own website. It's VKontakte, a rather large eastern european social network.


So how did this individual remove the info? Was a right-to-be-forgotten clause get invoked? Or did he just exercise existing privileges to delete his info?


He just deleted the post.




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