Technological development and the intensive use of the Internet in all areas of life have led to a great deal of data being stored on the Internet and an increasing number of linking possibilities. Internet users leave numerous traces on the web in blogs, social networks and many other applications. The right to be forgotten on the Internet refers to the possibility of determining one’s own digital traces and one’s own online life (private or public). In view of increasingly powerful search and analysis programs, oblivion – in the sense of complete and final deletion – often becomes illusory.
Source: FDPIC – Explanatory notes on the right to be forgotten