The Right to Be Forgotten: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Author

O´Hara, Kieron

Author_Institution

Univ. of Southampton, Southampton, UK

Volume

19

Issue

4

fYear

2015

fDate

July-Aug. 2015

Firstpage

73

Lastpage

79

Abstract

Viviane Reding´s (three-time European Commissioner) muscular speeches advocating a right to be forgotten for Europeans kick-started a ruckus that has pitched the European Union (EU) against the US and privacy activists against Big Data advocates. This issue gained momentum in May 2014, when an appeal by Google Spain against a decision of the Spanish Data Protection Authority (DPA), la Agencia Española de Protección de Datos (AEPD), was rejected by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), thereby enshrining the right to be forgotten in law. This paper discusses in depth considers the right to be forgotten, including its potential ramifications and successes.

Keywords

data protection; law; AEPD; Big Data advocates; CJEU; Court of Justice of the European Union; DPA; EU; European Union; Google Spain; Spanish Data Protection Authority; US; la Agencia Española de Protección de Datos; Google Spain; Internet privacy; Internet/Web technologies; Web searches; data protection; right to be forgotten; security and privacy;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Internet Computing, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1089-7801

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MIC.2015.88

Filename

7131393