Right to be forgotten

General Data Protection Regulation

The Court of Justice of the European Union considers that the processing of data by search engines is subject to EU data protection rules and that people are entitled to request, under certain conditions, that links to their personal data are not included in the results of a search by your internet name.

The right to be forgotten or "eliminated" in GDPR terminology, is the manifestation of the traditional cancellation and opposition rights applied to Internet search engines.

Indeed, the right to forgotten allows individuals to request data controllers to eliminate all personal data without undue delay in certain situations. Third parties with whom you share data of individuals are also covered by these rules.

In this way, we can say that the right to be forgotten has, in fact, its exceptions. According to Article 17 (number 3), this is not feasible when we are faced with an obligation to exercise freedom of expression and information; when it is required to comply with a legal obligation when dealing with data, to perform functions of public interest or to exercise the public authority of the controller; for reasons of public interest in the field of public health; for the purpose of archival of public interest, for the purpose of scientific or historical research or for statistical purposes; for the declaration, exercise or defense of a right in a judicial process.