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Wikipedia founder Jimmy
Wales has expressed his opposition to the law.
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A Wikipedia entry has
been removed from certain Google search results, under the new EU "right
to be forgotten" law.
The landmark ruling,
passed in May, allowed Europeans to ask for links to "irrelevant" and
outdated personal data to be removed from search engines.
The Wikipedia incident, first
reported in The Observer, marks the first time an entry on the
online encyclopaedia has been targeted, the BBC understands.
While
the law has been welcomed by some privacy advocates, many groups have said it
contravenes the right to free speech, with some even calling it censorship.
The "right to be
forgotten" ruling has been the subject of much controversy since the
decision by European Union Court of Justice (ECJ).
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