If it works legally, I suspect you don't even need to agree a new flag - just list the 'not for distribution' pages in a robots.txt file on the web server. Well behaved web crawlers should respect that already :-)
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> Subject: Re: Google, SARs and automated processing, any experience?
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> Would a neat solution for Google be to shift the onus onto the original
> publisher in the following way:
>
> 1) Google guarantees not to index or serve up in its results any web
> content which has been flagged as 'not for wider distribution'.
>
> 2) The individual who wants to suppress their information makes the
> case
> to the original publisher or owner of the site on which it is already
> published.
>
> 3) If the publisher/site owner is persuaded to do so (or ultimately,
> I
> suppose, forced in some way to do so by the individual) they insert the
> appropriate flag into the content.
>
> The second advantage of this is that every search engine could also use
> the
> same flag to suppress the information, and the individual would only
> have to
> have taken action once.
>
>
> Paul Ticher
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