Google hat gerade 7 Jahre unserer politischen Geschichte gelöscht
https://www.thebriefing.ie/google-just-erased-7-years-of-our-political-history/
Von dirksn
Google hat gerade 7 Jahre unserer politischen Geschichte gelöscht
https://www.thebriefing.ie/google-just-erased-7-years-of-our-political-history/
Von dirksn
8 Kommentare
Google wrote about this last year https://blog.google/around-the-globe/google-europe/political-advertising-in-eu/
Interesting headline—curious to see what actually led to the removal and how it affects access to that info
So now it will me more difficult to figure out the extend of the disinformation campaign coming from Russia and China. In bird culture this is called a dick move.
Not European so it might be out of line for me to comment on this but it seems to me that it’s fully within their right as a private company. It’s not some public archive hosted by the EU and it’s not something they’re required to keep by some kind of regulation. It’s very cool that you could access that data in the past, but it’s their data hosted on their servers. Imo it’s 100% fine for them to decide they don’t want to host it anymore for whatever reason. Especially given the context provided by the other commenters.
It is not Google’s job to keep an historical archive.
That just sounds like erasing evidence.
this is why infrastructure should be under public control.
They can be removed from public view of course, and since there are no EU wide (or even member state level) transparency laws from the side of the provider (they do exist for the payer) but these are ads, therefore business records, payments, tax records and election laws all come into play. Google has to keep them accessible to agencies, authorities, member states & law enforcement for at least 10 years.