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Wikipedia joins ‘right to be forgotten’ row

Gerry &#8220;The Monk&#8221; Hutch: Google has erased a link to his Wikipedia entry
Gerry “The Monk” Hutch: Google has erased a link to his Wikipedia entryPA:Press Association

Wikipedia has vowed to undermine European judges’ ‘right to be forgotten’ ruling by publicising every notification it receives when links to its pages are scrubbed from internet search engines.

The online encyclopaedia revealed yesterday that Google had erased a link to an entry for Gerry “The Monk” Hutch, an Irish mobster whose gang is alleged to have made more than £30 million from jewellery heists, frauds and bank raids in the 1970s and 1980s.

Wikipedia’s decision is likely to infuriate privacy regulators, many of which have told Google privately that they do not want it to inform publishers when links to their material are removed.

Wikipedia said it had received five takedown requests so far, including one relating to a criminal gang in Italy and…

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