The Right to be Forgotten and the Informational Autonomy in the Digital Environment
The right to be forgotten, equally called right to oblivion, is today at the heart of intense debate in high level spheres. The European Union legislators have been discussing the relevance of such a right in the digital environment since months, the Council of Europe authorities have expressed their concern on the subject, national politicians raised their voices, data protection authorities, entities working in the field of human rights, academics and experts have joined the procession coming from different geographical horizons.
It is important to rightly understand what is really meant by the right to be forgotten. The idea is not to allow someone to re-write the past and to erase (unpleasant) traces of his/her time on earth. The idea is to see to it that someone’s present is not cluttered up by his/her past.
DE TERWANGNE Cécile;
2014-01-30
Publications Office of the European Union
JRC86750
978-92-79-35086-3,
1831-9424,
EUR 26434,
OP LB-NA-26434-EN-N,
https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC86750,
10.2788/54562,
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