European Court of Justice rules on right to be forgotten

The right to be forgotten is a statutory right under the GDPR, and since the implementation of that regulation in May 2018, there have been several requests for data to be “forgotten” or better put, “erased,” from the Internet by search engines, primarily Google. In two separate cases, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) heard arguments[1] regarding the right to be forgotten, and ruled that a “balance” must be struck between the rights of data controllers, the rights of the rest of the public to information, and the right of the individual or entity requesting data be erased.

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