The right to be forgotten refers to the right of personal information to be deleted from a certain party's databases, whether electronic- or paper-based. The right to be forgotten leads to allowing individuals to have information, videos or photographs about themselves deleted from certain internet records so that they cannot be found by search engines. Many websites and companies keep this information and use it for various purposes. The right to be forgotten implies that many parties should not be allowed to keep such information.
Court of Justice ruled that people have the right to be forgotten. European Union has a right to privacy and in accordance with that right he or she can request of an internet search provider like Google, Yahoo or Bing to remove information or …show more content…
Google created an online forum to handle the request and named the committee of experts to oversee the process. European users have to provide their Name, Id, Contact information the links that that want removed and explain why each one is the irrelevant, outdated and inappropriate. Google said that it will review case by case and decide if the links can be removed if the information in deemed to be in the public