What is the Right to be Forgotten?

Every person has the right to ensure that their name is not associated with a specific result through an online search.

This right translates, operationally, into the right to deletion or de-indexing or de-listing of the result.

The right to be forgotten has been examined in the ruling of the EU Court of Justice of May 13, 2014, which states that there exists the right for one’s name not to be associated with any result, event and/or circumstance through an online search.

Recently, EU Regulation 2016/679, perhaps better known as “GDPR”, has further strengthened the concept of the right to be forgotten, recognizing the person’s effective power to erase themselves from the digital world. Therefore, according to EU Regulation 2016/679, the right to be forgotten becomes first and foremost the right to deletion of one’s personal data.

Indeed, Article 17 of the GDPR strongly reaffirms this principle: “The data subject shall have the right to obtain from the controller the erasure of personal data concerning him or her without undue delay and the controller shall have the obligation to erase personal data without undue delay where one of the following grounds applies:

  • The personal data are no longer necessary in relation to the purposes for which they were collected or otherwise processed
  • The data subject withdraws consent on which the processing is based according to Article 6, paragraph 1, point (a), or Article 9, paragraph 2, point (a), and where there is no other legal ground for the processing
  • The data subject objects to the processing pursuant to Article 21, paragraph 1, and there are no overriding legitimate grounds for the processing, or the data subject objects to the processing pursuant to Article 21, paragraph 2
  • The personal data have been unlawfully processed
  • The personal data have to be erased for compliance with a legal obligation in Union or Member State law to which the controller is subject
  • The personal data have been collected in relation to the offer of information society services referred to in Article 8, paragraph 1″

The IT and Legal Consulting of our Team and Partners allows us to identify and remove everything you don’t want to appear on the web, to give you the freedom to tell the truth about yourself and control what is said about you on search engines, websites, social networks, news outlets, blogs and forums, and other publications. The service is aimed at Individuals and Companies

Possible scenarios:

  • Permanent deletion of web pages
  • Deletion of photos and videos from social networks
  • Revenge Porn-Sextortion – Online sexual blackmail
  • De-indexing, rectification and modification

Freedom and Privacy are an integral part of human freedom

enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

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