‘The European Court of Human Rights and the right to erase history’

“The judgment issued by the First Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on 25 November 2021 in case 77419/16 (Biancardi v Italy) increases the scope of the ‘right to be forgotten’. It holds that de-indexing is directly applicable to online publications hosting an article and not only to search engines allowing its retrieval. The case concerns an Italian online newspaper convicted in a civil action by the Court of Cassation for not having de-indexed a news. The Court held it as no longer current and therefore – this is the heart of the matter – of not being any more of public interest. It was related to an ‘ordinary’ instead of a ‘public’ person …” (more)

[Andrea Monti, Inforrm’s Blog, 9 December]

First posted 2021-12-09 16:30:11

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