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GDPR shouldn't have a major impact here.

They already take down pages on request and retro-actively apply robots.txt rules so that solves "right to be forgotten" or other circumstances where PII is present and shouldn't be.

They have sufficiently defensible reason to keep and present the archived information otherwise.

Their key problem will remain copyright and publishing rights arguments not matters of personal data, at least not more so than currently.

(caveat: while I have an understanding of the regulation due to it very much having an effect on our clients and to a lesser extent on us directly, I am not a lawyer by any definition so don't take my interpretation as gospel in any way)



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