The Right to Be Forgotten

2024Murat Volkan Dülger, Gülçin GümüşArticle

Abstract

With the advancement of technology day by day, societies continue to evolve. In this evolution process, the internet is an indispensable part of our daily lives with its social networking sites. The size of online sharing and the development of information technologies that allow access to and storage of a large number of data have led to the demand for the deletion and prevention of the dissemination of data that individuals do not want to be known by others, or in other words, the "right to be forgotten".

The right to be forgotten, which came to the agenda with the Google decision of the Court of Justice of the European Union in 2014, has been the subject of many current national and international regulations and court decisions. The right to be forgotten has gained legal status as a right under the name of "right to erasure" for the first time with the European Union General Data Protection Regulation, which entered into force on 25 May 2018. Although the right to be forgotten has not yet found a place in a legal regulation in Turkey, it is seen that some steps have been taken by the Personal Data Protection Board. This study aims to draw the framework of the right to be forgotten as a whole at the current stage.