Another MP is trying to remove his past from search engines.
Candidate Eduard Bagirov is preparing for the election campaign. What do I need to do? That's right, remove the discrediting, outdated and unreliable facts of the biography from the Internet (desertion from the army, jail time, expulsion from the university, etc.). By law, any user has the right to remove from the search results links to outdated or unreliable information.
To clean up the biography, Bagirov addressed a request to conceal personal data in connection with Federal Law No. 264-FZ of July 13, 2015, which entered into force in Russia on January 1, 2016. As a result, the link to the article about it on the Lurkomorye site has now been removed from the Yandex search results .
However, it is unlikely that such partial censorship will help the deputy to erase the facts from history. Now the issue looks quite funny: only the link to the article about Bagirov itself has been deleted , but there are links to the discussions.
The search engine “Yandex” granted the “right to oblivion” of a citizen, despite the fact that the site lurkmore.to is already blocked on the territory of the Russian Federation. At the same time, search results for users with IP addresses outside the Russian Federation remained unchanged. The Lurkomorye website is open for them, as well as for a large number of Russians using various technical means of circumventing censorship, including the Tor browser, proxy servers, traffic compressors in browsers, VPN services, anti-censorship extensions in browsers, etc. .
Recall that a few months ago, the right to oblivion was taken advantage of by a businessman and public figure Sergei Mikhailov, known by the nickname Mihas, who in the past appeared in the media as the leader of the Solntsevo group .
Paradoxically, after an attempt to censor search results in accordance with the “right to oblivion” and discuss this fact in the media, the number of links in search engines to pages with “discrediting” information about Mijas has only increased . And repeatedly.
It is quite possible that the Streisand effect will also manifest itself in the case of Eduard Bagirov, the candidate candidate for the Patriots of Russia party.
The amendments on censorship of search results in the draft law “On Information, Information Technologies and on Information Protection” were adopted in 2015 . In the event that the search engine refuses to censor the law, a penalty of up to 1 million rubles is imposed on it .
At one time, Yandex and Google expressed themselves against the adoption of the bill. Russian company experts have prepared an opinionin which they noted that the bill violates the constitutional right of citizens to search and receive information, assigns censoring functions to search engine operators, does not take into account technical features of information dissemination on the Internet, opens up opportunities for abuse, and the concept and wording of the bill differ significantly from European law enforcement practice.