The right to be forgotten aims to give back to people their control over personal data and make the consent regime more effective .
Personal data is a daily issue on the Internet nowadays. In this online world in which personal information can be stored, collected and used and, moreover, can be remembered forever, the issue of privacy within personal data is extremely important. It eventually becomes essential, for the goal of this paper, to define what personal data is, before going deeply into the discussion and analysis of the right to be forgotten.
According to the EU Data protection Directive “personal data” shall mean any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (“Data Subject”); an identifiable person is one …show more content…
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Subsequently, on 25 January 2012, The European Commission presented the proposal for a new regulation on data protection: the article 17 of such proposal is what we came to call “right to be forgotten”.
The right to be forgotten is expressed in such article within the European Commission draft as “the right to obtain from the data controller the erasure of personal data relating to them and the abstention from further dissemination of such data, and to obtain from third parties the erasure of any links to, or copy or replication of that data”
These include where the data are “no longer necessary in relation to the purposes for which they were collected or otherwise processed”, where the data subject has withdrawn consent to processing and where the data subject objects to the processing of the data.
Furthermore, article 12 specifically states that a person can ask for personal data to be deleted “once that data is no longer
Personal data is a daily issue on the Internet nowadays. In this online world in which personal information can be stored, collected and used and, moreover, can be remembered forever, the issue of privacy within personal data is extremely important. It eventually becomes essential, for the goal of this paper, to define what personal data is, before going deeply into the discussion and analysis of the right to be forgotten.
According to the EU Data protection Directive “personal data” shall mean any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (“Data Subject”); an identifiable person is one …show more content…
”
Subsequently, on 25 January 2012, The European Commission presented the proposal for a new regulation on data protection: the article 17 of such proposal is what we came to call “right to be forgotten”.
The right to be forgotten is expressed in such article within the European Commission draft as “the right to obtain from the data controller the erasure of personal data relating to them and the abstention from further dissemination of such data, and to obtain from third parties the erasure of any links to, or copy or replication of that data”
These include where the data are “no longer necessary in relation to the purposes for which they were collected or otherwise processed”, where the data subject has withdrawn consent to processing and where the data subject objects to the processing of the data.
Furthermore, article 12 specifically states that a person can ask for personal data to be deleted “once that data is no longer