RE: search engines: right to be forgotten, sitemap.xml proposed solution

95/46 is the current EU Data Protection Directive - sorry policy wonk shorthand - (applicable to all EU members with slight variation due to transposition into national law). One of the main tenets of the Directive is that information may only be retained for a period of time that is relevant and appropriate to the purpose of collection.  Thus if my only reason for collecting information is to deliver a product (purpose = transaction fulfillment) my appropriate period of retention might be x days or weeks after delivery - whatever the period of time reasonable to wait for a complaint about delivery.  However most data is collected for multiple purposes with different retention periods.  There may be a warranty on the product and I maintain that information for a longer period.  There may be marketing and customer retention reasons both of which may have different reasonable period of retention.  IBM/Tivoli tried to address this variability of preferences and retention periods long ago with a preference language called EPAL.  I doubt I need to remind Danny of this :-)

-----Original Message-----
From: Karl Dubost [mailto:karld@opera.com] 
Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2012 12:50 AM
To: Joe Alhadeff
Cc: Daniel Weitzner; Shane Wiley; Thomas Roessler; rob@blaeu.com; public-privacy@w3.org
Subject: Re: search engines: right to be forgotten, sitemap.xml proposed solution


Le 13 déc. 2012 à 14:41, Joe Alhadeff a écrit :
> to the enforcement of appropriate data retention under 95/46 where information can only be retained for a period of time relevant to the purpose of collection

"95/46"

What does that mean?
Where is that? 
Which country/ies? 


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