Right to be forgotten or to rewrite history? – Hot topic 2016
This Hot Topic session will tackle the bleeding edge of the debate on the right to be forgotten, and the key questions that politicians, judges and internet actors will be forced to address in the coming months and years.
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The ECJ ruling on Google Spain in 2014 turned the right to be forgotten into a global buzzword. Nearly half a million people have asked Google alone to de-list search results about them, with the company agreeing to this in 43% of cases. While low appeal rates appear to show that the decisions made are non-controversial, there are growing questions as to whether governments have out-sourced privacy policy to the commercial sector.
The Right to be Forgotten principle is undeniably spreading. Other countries – Canada, Korea, India – are also debating their own policies. In parallel, there are tests of the boundaries of the law – should RTBF have extra-territorial application? Does it also apply to digitised newspaper archives? Where do the boundaries lie with freedom of the press, and the integrity of the historical record?
This Hot Topic session will tackle the bleeding edge of the debate on the right to be forgotten, and the key questions which politicians, judges and internet actors will be forced to address in the coming months and years.
Session description
Interventions
- RTBF 101: what are we talking about? (general presentation)
- The Right to be Forgotten and press freedom (Press representative)
- The Right to be Forgotten and the impact on search-engines (Search-engine representative)
- The Right to be Forgotten and the integrity of the record (Library representative)
- The Right to be Forgotten and personal freedom (EDRi representative)
Keywords
Right to be forgotten, privacy, archives, press freedom, libraries
Format
Hot Topic session - short (3min) presentations from each speaker, followed by moderated discussion with the floor.
Further reading
Links to relevant websites, declarations, books, documents. Please note we cannot offer web space, only links to external resources are possible.
People
Moderator: Olivier Crépin-Leblond
Session twitter hashtag
Hashtag: #RTBFEuroDIG