History of the Right to be Forgotten

As a concept, the Right to be Forgotten has been under discussion and put into practice in various jurisdictions, including the Philippines, Argentina and the European Union, for many years.

The whole idea of a right to be forgotten derives from people wanting autonomy over their data, without it being used to stigmatise them in the future. In other words, people want the right for their past actions – or simply incorrect historical information about them – to be scrubbed from the Internet so that third parties can’t use it against the.

Criminal convictions are the obvious example of the kind of data use that could adversely impact the data subject.