On Right To Be Forgotten Under GDPR

The Internet,one of the greatest inventions in the 20th century,revolutionized the way human beings communicated and collected information.Over the past decade,the emergence of cloud data technology and the application of various cellphone Apps as well as social medias posed great threats to the protection of personal information right and privacy right.The Internet indiscriminately stored all of the information that Internet users posted online,and legal scholars began to reconsider the duties that Internet information suppliers shall shoulder.Therefore,the legal concept "the right to be forgotten" was put forward.The right to be forgotten has been written into the law of some member states in the EU in the 1970s,but mostly the relevant regulations only focused on criminals' personal privacy and balancing the conflict between the freedom of press and personal privacy.GDPR strengthens the protection of personal information and the right to be forgotten under GDPR has so far provided the most detailed and all-sided protection against the infringement of personal information right.GDPR is a landmark date privacy regulation.This thesis aims to analyze the right to be forgotten and explore what significance it will bring about on the solution to the new problems emerging in protecting personal information right.However,there are some controversies over exceptions of the right to be forgotten and many scholars are suspicious of whether the rule could be fully implemented.It is necessary and beneficial to study these controversies when we consider writing the legal rule into Chinese law.Now domestic legal scholars mainly focus on analyzing the legal terms and relevant foreign cases,but few could explore how to get over the controversies from different perspectives.In terms of these controversies,the thesis puts forward possible solutions and explores whether the current right to delete could change for the better.The thesis is divided into six parts.The first part is to briefly introduce the traditional private right could not well protect personal information in the information era,and we need a new legal tool to solve the new problems.The second part is to introduce the legal definition of the right to be forgotten.The third part is to introduce the conditions for exercising the right to be forgotten and the controversies.The forth part is to come up with possible solutions in term of these controversies.The sixth part is to consider whether it is possible to write the right to be forgotten into Chinese law.The final part is the conclusion.The right to be forgotten under the GDPR is the clearest and most detailed legal rules on empowering Internet users the right to ask for deleting the online personal information.In spite of some controversies,the right to be forgotten will still strengthen the protection of internet users' personal information right.It is beneficial to perfect Chinese date laws through analyzing how the right to be forgotten is implemented in the EU.