The right to be forgotten: its potential role in a coherent privacy regime

This paper examines the recent Google Spain ruling establishing a right to de-indexing based on existing rights to data protection. This ruling has had a divisive effect on the relations between the EU and the US, but this article argues that we should understand the right to de-indexing in the cont...

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Main Authors: O'Hara, Kieron (Author), Shadbolt, Nigel (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: 2015.
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520 |a This paper examines the recent Google Spain ruling establishing a right to de-indexing based on existing rights to data protection. This ruling has had a divisive effect on the relations between the EU and the US, but this article argues that we should understand the right to de-indexing in the context of: (i) moves to improve communication with data subjects and support subjects' autonomy, particularly within the notice and consent regime; (ii) understanding the role of obscurity of information, and undermining the current binary assumption that information is either public or not; and (iii) moves to improve the quality of search engines' output. If we do this, then the right to be de-indexed (and possibly other types of 'right to be forgotten') could become a point of contact between the EU and US privacy regimes, not a point of conflict. 
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