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MRAC's avatar

Winning a £500K TFL bid to manufacture bus driver sleeping pods/coffins from charity shop fake g-plan sideboards at a cost of £10K a piece is insane. At this rate of extreme capital waste I might just hop the tube barriers too next time, FUCK a fare.

Michael MacLeod's avatar

So curious about that last nib! For what it's worth, I still get a London Centric piece as the 4th search result on Google for 'Asif Aziz', only below Wikipedia, LinkedIn and Reddit. Not sure if others see the same. Or maybe it's someone else.

Richard Havell's avatar

In a lot of these cases, it's actually about the comments section of the article rather than the main text - either posting something under their real name which they later regret, or being mentioned by name in someone else's comment.

Nick Duffy's avatar

On the Google point - a certain artist behind a mural that turned out to be AI seems to have expunged that from his search results…

Jane Clemetson's avatar

It was really ZXC case that stopped the naming of those arrested until they are charged. The Supreme Court held that their reasonable expectation of privacy outweighed the right to publish, except where the public interest in naming them on arrest itself outweighs their privacy rights. (I paraphrase)

Jim Waterson's avatar

Oh I'm going to be in SUCH trouble with my media lawyer readers for not including ZXC. Thanks Jane.

I just searched for news stories on ZXC and the top archive results... were written by me. Ooops. My brain's shot.

For anyone not in the weeds: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/feb/16/bloomberg-loses-uk-supreme-court-case-on-privacy

tete dgretrtt's avatar

Surely you can find out who wants to be forgotten? Download your CMs files (or google docs folder...I dunno what you use) run it through your AI sub - get a list of every person not on your staff you've ever named (less than a thousand I imagine), get Codex/Claude to run google searches on all of them and output the results? Maybe I'm missing something here.

Wai-Wai Ng's avatar

Re. Google - out of curiosity, what do they actually tell you? Just that some link(s) have been removed? Do they give you the number of links?