Since the EU Court of Justice ruled to uphold and codify the Right to Be Forgotten, Free expression activists fear that the decision will open the door to corporate and government censorship. However and apart from the European case, how much do we know from the rest of the world? It is part of a cross-workshop collaboration with Workshop 31 that look at the procedural and legal implications of such rulings.
In a conversational format, the roundtable seek to understand arguments, scope, discussions and current situation of the Right to be Forgotten outside the EU and around the world in rulings and legislations (enacted and proposed).
The round table will start with kick off presentations (3 minutes) of cases by local activists, such as
Mexican data authority IFAI fine to Google Colombian Court case against El Tiempo and ultimately Google Chilean bill intended to modify the Data Protection Act Legislation in Nicaragua codifying the ‘right to be forgotten’ Japan's court case against Google South Korean analysis process to adopt the ‘right to be forgotten’
After those presentations, participants will be divided into groups to be facilitated by the speakers. These groups will discuss and note problems, challenges and enabling environments on the cases in order to draw some “lessons learned”. The full group will reconvene on the roundtable format to detect particularities of the debate beyond EU and will present, discuss and define 10 lessons that can be drawn from these experiences to protect freedom of expression in these debates.
