I have just read the Irish judgement. It is an Irish domestic judgement on what are the plaintiff's rights to anonymity in a civil case. The Irish Constitution says none and the judge upheld this, only commenting that, although this was an unusual case, the constitution is clear that  cases must tried in open court with all parties identified and that newspapers had a constitutional right to report, fully,  on any case tried in open court. The actual defamation was subject to a separate judgement. Any EU directives have to be enshrined in legislation in the member country. This is probably some way off. The only impact on family history societies will be they cannot leave personal information on bulletin boards, forums etc for ever and they must be able to remove personal information on demand. I am not sure if this is a bad thing as there is too much out-of-date information out there with forum threads going back to the 90s. Paul ________________________________ From: Scott Phillips <indianaswp@gmail.com> To: abruce@madasafish.com; "devon@rootsweb.com" <devon@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, 23 November 2013, 13:01 Subject: Re: [DEV] LDS/WikiTree I'll stop now, but I never said it did. All I said was it impacted those living and those recently deceased. Over and out. Scott On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 4:43 AM, Adrian Bruce <abruce@madasafish.com> wrote: > <<snipped>> > > Check out this decision by the Irish courts: > http://www.bailii.org/ie/cases/IEHC/2012/H95.html > > I also highly recommend you read the IAJGS site to stay up to date on > something that is FAR from a hoax! > > You do a disservice to tell everyone to ignore this issue. > <<snipped>> > > > Can you explain how a right to be forgotten applies to someone who died > 100y > ago? It doesn't....... > > Adrian > > > ------------------------------------------ > The DEVON-L mailing list is co-sponsored by GENUKI/Devon > ( http://genuki.cs.ncl.ac.uk/DEV/ ) >  and > the Devon FHS (http://www.devonfhs.org.uk/ ) > List archive for Devon can be found at > http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/DEVON/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > DEVON-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message > -- Scott W. Phillips Genealogical Historian Onward To Our Past 3324 LaSalle Trail Duneland Beach, Indiana 46360 Phone (312) 718-1769 *Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/OnwardToOurPast <http://www.facebook.com/OnwardToOurPast>* *Website: http://OnwardToOurPast.com <http://OnwardToOurPast.com>* *Twitter: @OnwardToOurPast* ------------------------------------------ The DEVON-L mailing list is co-sponsored by GENUKI/Devon ( http://genuki.cs.ncl.ac.uk/DEV/ ) and the Devon FHS (http://www.devonfhs.org.uk/ ) List archive for Devon can be found at http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/DEVON/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to DEVON-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message