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The Right to be Forgotten – It’s about time, or is it?
Jef Ausloos
CPDP Panel: Timing the Right to be ForgottenJanuary 23rd, 2014
Umbrella Term
The Right to be Forgotten
Defamation LawGeneral Right to Privacy
Intellectual Property RightsData Protection Law
General Tort Law
General Right to Privacy (art.8 ECHR)
• Public exposure of private information
• In a disproportionate, unfair or unreasonable way
• Usually by the media
• Right to Privacy >< Right to Freedom of Expression
• ECtHR Case-law:o ORF v Austria (7 Dec. 2006, No.35841/02);o Editions Plon v France (18 May 2004, No. 58148/00);o …
Data Protection: Right to Erasure
Article 12 DPD:
“Member States shall guarantee every data subject the right to obtain from the controller: […]
(b) as appropriate the rectification, erasure or blocking of data the processing of which does not comply with the provisions of this Directive, in particular because of the incomplete or inaccurate nature of the data;”
Data Protection: Right to Erasure
• Purpose Specification & Use Limitationo Legitimacy can evolve over timeo Data might become unnecessary, irrelevant or inadequate
• Legitimate Groundo Article 7(f): legitimate interests of the controller >< fundamental
rights and freedoms of the data subjecto Balance might evolve over time
• Right to Objecto Compelling and legitimate groundso Passing of time as an argument
Google Spain Case (CJEU C-131/12)
National level:
•Lack of territorial and temporal limitations
•Ease of dissemination and retrieval
•Originally lawful and accurate data can become outdated
=> Potential harm to data subjects
Draft Data Protection Regulation
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§7. The controller shall implement mechanisms to ensure that the time limits established for the erasure of personal data and/or for a periodic review of the need for the storage of the data are observed.
Article 17 – The Right to be Forgotten and to Erasure
Conclusion /1
• Ever more easy to capture, store, process and retrieve
personal data
• Variety of applicable legal regimes
• Data Protection law increasingly appealing
• Removal of information Balance of interest to be made
Conclusion /2
Balancing Exercise
Time
Other LegalFrameworks
Public Interest
Notorietyof Individual
Context
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Thank you for your attention!
Jef Ausloos
Interdisciplinary Centre for Law and ICT(ICRI - iMinds), University of Leuven
jef.ausloos@law.kuleuven.bewww.icri.be
@Jausl00s - @ICRI_be
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