The Right to be forgotten in the information society

The object of this study reflects on the right to be forgotten. The overall objective of the research is to investigate whether there is a legal possibility of invoking the right to be forgotten in the face of traditional and new media, analysing the legal grounds for such support, without losing sight of the critical perspective of human rights. Specifically, its objectives are: (i) to analyse if it is legally reasonable to sustain the right to forgetfulness as a personality right; (ii) to investigate if the right to forgetfulness is autonomous or not (con)merged with other personality rights such as privacy, intimacy, honour and the image itself; (iii) understand the role of freedom of speech in the informatized intersubjective relationships inserted in the network society; (iv) evaluate the existing criteria for the application of the right to forgetfulness in face of the Internet without neglecting the democratic perspective of freedom of speech; (v) compare the understanding consolidated by the Superior Court of Justice and by foreign courts.