Right To Be Forgotten – Preview To This New Age Concept

"The right to silence on past events in life that are no longer occurring"

In simple words, as a concept, the right to be forgotten means allowing individuals to have their information, videos or photographs deleted from certain internet records so that they cannot be found by search engines. This concept has been in existence in the European Union (EU) and Argentina since 2006 and finds its genesis in the principle of determining the development of one's life in an autonomous way, without being perpetually or periodically stigmatized as a consequence of a specific action performed in the past. Under the right to be forgotten, an individual can make a request to search engines like Google, Yahoo and Bing to take down his/her personal details in certain circumstances to prevent access of confidential information by third parties.