Open AccessSome Challenges on the Brazilian Right to be Forgotten in the Digital Era
Author(s) -
Francisco Nelson de Alencar,
Luciana Helena Gonçalve
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
journal of advance research in applied science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2208-2352
DOI - 10.53555/nnas.v4i1.642
Subject(s) - right to be forgotten , the internet , internet privacy , right to privacy , freedom of expression , prejudice (legal term) , new right , data protection act 1998 , digital rights , resource (disambiguation) , political science , computer security , law , computer science , politics , world wide web , human rights , computer network
This paper is about the right to be forgotten in the digital age. It aims to present some observations on the right to be forgotten in the digital era, in other words, a right of a person to delist an URL – Uniform Resource Locator - which causes him/her prejudice from the index of search engines, for instance, Google. We believe that the right to privacy has a new calling in the digital era, and, here, especially before search engines. In this way, the right to be forgotten in the digital era can represent an expansion of the protection of the right to privacy. As we will discuss, we believe that observations and the experience of the United States, for example, through the protection of the freedom of expression, and the combat of bad speech with more speech can help the Brazilian legal system to consider a practical way of protection of the privacy sphere on the internet.