Baidaa A. M. The right to digital oblivion (a comparative study)

Abstract

           The right to digital oblivion means the right of every person to erase and forget his personal data available on the Internet, whether he or other Internet users published it. The idea of ​​this right has emerged as a legal mechanism to address the repeated attacks by network users by publishing information and personal data of others and harming them. This right is of great importance due to its modernity and the neglect of its precise and clear organization in most countries. Therefore, in this research, we have explained what is meant by this right and what are the frameworks for its practice or what is the subject of this right represented by personal data that has been published or processed for a specific period of time. It does not address all data and information, but only data of a personal nature that has been published or processed for a period of time. We have also explained the dedication of this right in many foreign and Arab legislations in an attempt to reach the necessity of enshrining this right in the Iraqi constitution and in a special law for this right that defines its concept and limits from an objective and temporal perspective in a clear and precise manner, in addition to the penalty prescribed for anyone who violates it.