Introduction The collection of information is the base of any program or business and this is the base on which upcoming strategies are designed. Nowadays when we even go to the super market and purchase anything we are asked to register our contact number, birth details etc. However not every piece of information is necessary but we do not care much about it. The data if not used properly can be very dangerous for privacy of an individual. The protection of data is of utmost importance because it contains your personal information and if it goes into wrong hand it can lead to trouble. For example: - if someone is a journalist then the information related to him is so crucial because if his personal information gets leaked he might not be able to cover the news freely. Thus, the data protection is very important. Indian government in year 2019 came up with personal data protection bill to protect the data but because of few objections, it got referred to the Joint parliamentary c...
In 2020, the High Court of Orissa examined the right of a rape victim to be forgotten from the internet, where the court stated, “…information in the public domain is like toothpaste, once it is out of the tube one can’t get it back in and once the information is in the public domain it will never go away” [1] In a time driven by technology, where information about ‘everybody’ is at the tip of fingers, imagine having consent and control over ‘how much information’ and ‘what kind of information’ any third-party witness about you. In an era of digital permanence, having an unsaid gem in your fundamental right that helps you remove any trace, subject to restrictions, of you from the internet. That right is, RIGHT TO BE FORGOTTEN. Right to be forgotten (RTBF) allows individuals (data subjects) to request that their personal information be removed from the Internet (not show up in search engine searches), and seeks to give individual’s increased control over their personal infor...