The Effect of Time on the Right to Be Forgotten in the UK
The Right to Be Forgotten enables private individuals to request search engines, such as Google or Bing, and AI platforms like ChatGPT, to remove articles and images from search results when their name is searched in the UK and EU.
Philip Martin, Senior Caseworker at Internet Erasure Ltd, notes the importance of this right.
The Right to Be Forgotten is not automatic and requires a balancing test between personal privacy and public interest for each case. This area of law is discretionary and subjective, without absolute rules.
The legal foundation of the Right to Be Forgotten is based on Article 17 UK GDPR (Right to Erasure) and Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights (Right to Privacy), incorporated into UK law by the Human Rights Act 1998.
Author's summary: The Right to Be Forgotten in the UK allows individuals to request removal of personal info from search results.