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Right to be forgotten

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Topical headingRight to be forgotten
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Variant(s)Right to be forgotten--Law and legislation
Right to erasure
Right to oblivion
See alsoDisclosure of information--Law and legislation
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Online reputation management
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Privacy, Right of
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Scope noteHere are entered works on the concept that individuals should be entitled to delete their personal information from the Internet.
Found inWork cat: Le droit a l'oubli, 2015: t.p. (Le droit a l'oubli, French term for Right to be forgotten or Right to oblivion)
Pereira, Ângela Guimarães. The ethics of memory in the digital age : interrogating the right to be forgotten, 2014: p. 1, etc. (Ownership and control of a person's data, including erasure of their presence on the web; recent proposals for regulation in Europe include an explicit "Right to be Forgotten")
Black's law dictionary, 10th edition, 2014: page 1523 (Right to oblivion, the theory that, to protect one's privacy, an individual should be entitled to delete all public information about himself or herself stored on the Internet; also termed Right to be forgotten)
Duhaime's law dictionary WWW website, viewed July 28, 2015 (Right to be forgotten, a right to have personal information deleted from some second party's electronic or paper records or databases)
Wikipedia WWW website, viewed July 28, 2015 (Right to be forgotten, a concept discussed and put into practice in the European Union and Argentina since 2006)
GDPR.EU, viewed May 9, 2022: Art. 17 (right to erasure, right to be forgotten)
   <https://gdpr.eu/article-17-right-to-be-forgotten/>
Not found inBlack's law dictionary, 9th edition, 2009