Centre bats for ‘Right to be forgotten’
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10Pointer
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Polity & Governance
- Published
18th Dec, 2021
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Context
The Centre has told the Delhi High Court that the provisions of the Information Technology Act do not provide for the removal of court orders passed against a person on account of his right to be forgotten.
What is right to be forgotten?
- The ‘right to be forgotten’ or the ‘right to erasure’ is recognized as a necessary element of personal data protection laws.
- Simply put, it is the concept that individuals have the civil right to request that personal information be removed from the Internet.
- The Right to be Forgotten falls under the purview of an individual’s right to privacy.
Right to Privacy
- In 2017, the Right to Privacy was declared a fundamental right by the Supreme Court in its landmark verdict.
- The court said at the time that, “the right to privacy is protected as an intrinsic part of the right to life and personal liberty under Article 21 and as a part of the freedoms guaranteed by Part III of the Constitution”.
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