Are removed yt videos gone permanently?

Grimreaper

For those who have discovered the forum very recently, most of the content shared in the "youtube videos post here" thread which I believe is the biggest thread in the entire site, is now mostly empty because most of the videos shared a few years ago and even up to last year have been removed either by youtube themselves or deleted for other reasons. It's kinda sad to see that good videos are gone. If any users have saved those videos back then and could reshare them, I'd really appreciate it.

tizooka

From what I know, if the original video is gone, and they aren't to be found on something like "the way back machine", you're pretty much at the mercy of those who might have downloaded them when they were still up...Sorry

globalnavel

Which is why there should be an option to upload videos in the forum? If there is then please suggest.

Admin

globalnavel When someone uploads content to social media websites, they also (by law) have the right to delete it. This law was passed by the E.U - often referred to as the "Right to be forgotten" from the internet.
The purpose of this forum is to prolong our longevity in the public domain and act as a backbone to a cluster of newly growing communities across the internet.

Essentially we want to survive as long as possible, and the only way we can do this isby abiding the laws and policy set by various countries/ GDPR regulators. Hence it's one of the reasons we will not have a video upload feature yet.

Safebox

Admin that's not actually how the Right To Be Forgotten law works, as it only covers your appearence in news media and search engines
The videos you upload are covered under intellectual property law, which as you've further stated are up to the individual to remove at their leisure (or YouTubes if it violates guidelines or laws)

It's a sad facet of the internet that the old times are forever accelerating away from us and some content may be lost forever.
But such is life.

Admin

Safebox

Please see the following quote:

The UK GDPR specifies two circumstances where you should tell other organisations about the erasure of personal data:

the personal data has been disclosed to others; or
the personal data has been made public in an online environment (for example on social networks, forums or websites).

Further information can be found here: ico.org.uk

Safebox

Admin once again, not Right To Be Forgotten 😅
GDPR is related to information gathered on a person by another and the legality around what you can and cannot do with it
It does not pertain to content they create, which is why YouTube and TikTok can advertise using random videos without needing to inform their creators or get permission

GDPR covers personal attributes such as legal name, address, bank details, etc. As well as how long you can store that data for and where you can store it (which is why Brexit has been such a shitshow for my work as previous we stored data in Dublin, Ireland cause the Amazon servers were closer than the one in Manchester, England)

Admin

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Can you forward me this information so I can read it at my leisure. If I am wrong or partly wrong, I want to be able to understand this.

Below is the factual information I read straight from regulators website:

'Right to erasure' is also known as ‘The right to be forgotten’.

From what I read under "What is personal data?" it states the following:

What identifies an individual could be as simple as a name or a number or could include other identifiers such as an IP address or a cookie identifier, or other factors.

Personal data is information that relates to an identified or identifiable individual.
Source

For example, If you share your face on a video/ picture and post it on a social media and later, you changed your mind. And wanted to delete it from the web... call me a silly-billy, but to my knowledge, this would fall under the criteria's mentioned above.

This does not necessarily need to be 'meta data' held on a particular individual (which I believe is what you're referring to). For the purposes of the law called "Right to erasure" it can be any identifiable data that can lead to an individual being identified i.e picture or a video.

On top of this we're also not just abiding by UK law's, we also abide by USA laws where possible.