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The Right to Be Forgotten: Issuing a Voluntary Recall

Abstract

Europe has recognized a fundamental right to be forgotten. The contours of this right will doubtlessly evolve, but for the moment Europe recognizes a personal right to ask internet search engine owners to remove links to third party web pages that appear following searches using one’s name in the search query. The argument below will rely on a pragmatic sense of the inevitable basic problems in implementing such a right.