RightsCon Tunis 2019

The session aims to discuss the online “right to be forgotten” as an example for the need to think about the relationship between access to information and personal data protection, besides outlining and problematizing the idea of a right to obliteration, and the role of the Internet over such issues. This central element will subsidize a discussion that seeks to understand the balance, difficulties and themes which are important within the perspective of personal data, memory, history and the role of the Internet in these relations. Thus, in addition to the themes mentioned above, we intend to understand how the right to freedom of expression, access to information and privacy can be protected while preventing forgetfulness and abuse or erasure of data. You will hear from activists who have struggled with these issues in their regional or thematic work (e.g., Latin America, China, India, Western Europe and gender issues) taking on the privacy-bound challenges of digitization while keeping head down to preserve the developmental role of the Internet as the sphere of public discourse . You will also hear from a data protection regulator and a company, respectively obligated to enforce their duties to make the Internet "forget" certain contents.