[Data-modeling] Privacy, public figures, etc

[Kirrily Robert]

----- "Jeff Prucher" <jeff at metaweb.com> wrote:
> 
> The bigger issue is really that no data is ever removed from Freebase
> -- if
> people naively enter data about themselves or friends and relatives,
> and
> then realize that they were perhaps unwise and remove that
> information, the
> data is still in Freebase and can be retrieved, even if it doesn't
> display
> in the client or a simple MQL query.

Yup, definitely an issue.  I know WP has had to deal with this.  There is some way to get a Wikipedia article permanently deleted, for instance if someone posted credit card numbers in an article, and I suspect we'll need some way to do this in future for those very reasons.  Or imagine (heaven forfend) a court case where there was a ruling made that something had to be removed because it was libelous or something.  OK I'm handwaving wildly here.  But I can certainly imagine "social" reasons why permanent deletion might be required.

K.


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Kirrily Robert
Freebase Community Director
kirrily at metaweb.com