From Digital Shadows To Erasure: Exploring The Right To Be Forgotten
- IJLLR Journal
- Mar 27
- 1 min read
Vidushi Verma, Assistant Professor (Law), IPEM Law Academy
ABSTRACT
In our contemporary world, the advent of digital era has transformed not only our societal structures, but also the very fabric of our existence. In order to empower an individual to avoid unnecessary intrusion, the Right to be forgotten emerged in most of the data privacy regulations around the world. The foundational stone of data privacy rests on the premise of digital forgetting by way of deletion. Thus the right pin points to the fact that as much as an individual has the right to express herself, she also has the right to request erasure of her data. . This right introduces a profound question: In the era of perpetual connectivity, do individuals possess the power to erase certain aspects of their digital past, similar to a magical spell, in order to exercise their control and autonomy over their data? Delving into the intricacies of this concept unveils a fascinating intersection of freedom of speech of an individual along with the right to reputation and privacy an increasingly interconnected world.
The research work will thus aim is to examine the historical development of the right along with a theoretical analysis to examine its basic premise. Further, the right will be juxtaposed with similar sounding legal protections like Right to privacy and Doctrine of practical obscurity and its rival Freedom of speech and expression, to study their interrelations and focus will also be drawn to the contours of this right in the present Indian legal system.
