Civil Liability for the Infringement of the Right to Digital Oblivion

Abstract

Personal data, such as images, for example, once posted on the Internet, can be endlessly numerous due to its digital nature, that is, it becomes eternal, especially when its owner does not withdraw it in time before its spread, or may not be able to withdraw or cancel it due to the policy of Some sites that set the conditions for waiving the rights of such personal data, as they remain in the archives of those sites, which allows anyone to refer to them in a few seconds despite the passage of a long period of time since their publication, and therefore may reuse, publish or defame them. Therefore, the regulations and legislation took the initiative to organize (the right to be forgotten), which justifies each person's claim to oppose and forget to re-publish information and data of his own after a specified period of time in the future.