The right to be forgotten (or to oblivion) is just the right to have your private informations deleted and the guarantee that what you delete online is really deleted and nobody can recover it.
It's not the right to be removed from other's people memory.
>The right to be forgotten (or to oblivion) is just the right to have your private informations deleted and the guarantee that what you delete online is really deleted and nobody can recover it.
You say "this" and then written something completely different to what I wrote.
As I said, AFAIK the right to be forgotten doesn't give you the right to delete any information. It just gives you the right to remove some information from appearing in search engines.
An example I remember that happened in Netherlands is of a doctor that lost her medical license. When you searched her name, the first result was an article on some news site that she lost her license.
On appeal she got it back and using the right to be forgotten she removed that news article from search results. The article is still there on that news site it just doesn't appear in search results when you search her name.
> As I said, AFAIK the right to be forgotten doesn't give you the right to delete any information. It just gives you the right to remove some information from appearing in search engines.
Sorry, probably lost in translation.
I never said you have the right to delete any information, just you private informations and any data you own and you ask the controller to delete.
I don't know if you are aware that in EU for EU citizens we have the GDPR legislation.
Let's cite the law, Article 17, GDPR legislation
> Art. 17 GDPR
> Right to erasure (‘right to be forgotten’)
> 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
In particular, the controller has the right to retain your personal data (including the data you posted publicly) until you consent to it, if you revoke the consent, you can ask to stop the processing (art. 18) and delete everything they have about you.
If you comment on a social network, for example, that comment identifies you, because it is linked to your username, it has metadata attached to it, it can be used to track you, it is considered personal data, you can ask for removal.
Unless there is a (very) valid reason, the controller has to comply and delete every copy of the data, including backups (and soft deleted data that's still there).
The right to be forgotten predates GDPR, it's less about private data and more about obsolete public data. Like a prison sentence that you served and you have "paid your debt" to society, it avoids past mistakes to follow you forever even after you redeemed yourself.
The right to be forgotten (or to oblivion) is just the right to have your private informations deleted and the guarantee that what you delete online is really deleted and nobody can recover it.
It's not the right to be removed from other's people memory.