Right to be forgotten

In recent years, privacy and personal data protection have become increasingly associated with the notion of the right to be forgotten. This concept, which until now has had no autonomous existence in French law, refers to elements of several fields covered by the law (privacy, literary and artistic property, image rights, criminal law, civil status, employment law, family law, etc.) in which it may seem legitimate to make information disappear after a given period, to make it unavailable, more difficult to find or more difficult to exploit.

In 2014, the Court of Justice of the European Union had to deal with two cases relating to the right to be forgotten. The first ruling (Google Spain SL and Google Inc. v. Agencia Española de Protección de Datos (AEPD) and Mario Costeja González) required Google to set up a platform enabling people to make requests for the dereferencing...