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The right to be forgotten (RTBF[1]) is the right to have private information about a person be removed from Internet searches and other directories under some circumstances. The issue has arisen from desires of individuals to "determine the development of their life in an autonomous way, without being perpetually or periodically stigmatized as a consequence of a specific action performed in the past".[2]: 231 The right entitles a person to have data about them deleted so that it can no longer be discovered by third parties, particularly through search engines.[3]: 121
Those in favor of the right to be forgotten cite its necessity due to issues such as revenge porn sites and references to past petty crimes appearing in search engine listings for a person's name. The central concern lies in the potentially undue influence that such results may exert upon a person's online reputation indefinitely if not removed.[4]
Those who oppose the right worry about its impact on the right to freedom of expression and whether creating a right to be forgotten would lead to a decreased quality of the Internet, censorship, and the rewriting of history.[5] They also question the practicality of establishing a right to be forgotten as an internationally, due both to the vagueness of current rulings on the subject[6][self-published source] and the difficulty of enforcement across jurisdictions with conflicting laws.
The right to be forgotten is distinct from the right to privacy. The right to privacy constitutes information that is not publicly known, whereas the right to be forgotten involves revoking public access to information that was publicly known at a certain time.[3]: 122 [7]
^Vaas, Lisa (25 September 2019). "Google wins landmark case: Right to be forgotten only applies in EU". Naked Security. Retrieved 9 May 2021.
^Mantelero, Alessandro (2013). "The EU Proposal for a General Data Protection Regulation and the roots of the 'right to be forgotten'". Computer Law & Security Review. 29 (3): 229–235. doi:10.1016/j.clsr.2013.03.010.
^ abWeber, Rolf H. (2011). "The right to be forgotten: more than a Pandora's Box?". Journal of Intellectual Property, Information Technology and E-Commerce Law. 2: 120–130.
^Cite error: The named reference Arthur was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^Mayes, Tessa (2014-05-21). "We have no right to be forgotten online". The Guardian. Retrieved 2014-08-09.
^Fleischer, Peter (2011-03-09). "Privacy...?: Foggy thinking about the Right to Oblivion". Peterfleischer.blogspot.co.nz. Retrieved 2014-08-09.
^Crovitz, L. Gordon (2010-11-15). "Crovitz: Forget any 'Right to Be Forgotten'". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 2014-08-09.
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