The right to be forgotten provided under Article 17 of the
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
was found by the Swedish Data Protection Authority
(DPA) to be violated by the famous search
result giant Google.
What is 'right to be forgotten'?
For the first time, the right to be forgotten appeared in 2014
in the EU. found for the first time in the case of Google
Spain v Mario Costeja Gonzalez (Case C-131/12)
(the Google Case), which was
reinforced in 2018 under Article 17 of GDPR1.
Right to be forgotten gives individuals the right to have their
personal data erased/deleted without undue delay, however, this
right is not absolute and can be qualified under certain
circumstances as specified in GDPR.
