Right to be forgotten: Paving the way for the protection of privacy

Abstract

The Indian Constitution gives some specific Fundamental Rights to the people of India and can’t be abused in any case, like the Right given under Article 21 i.e. Life and Personal Liberty. Right to be forgotten is one of them which is recently incorporated. Earlier, the right to forget was not accessible and enforceable in the courts of law by the public, but over the years Indian courts have recognized the Right to Forget for adjudicating several cases as part of Article 21, in civil writ petition no. 9478 of 2016 court recognized a person’s Privacy rights pertaining to the right to be forgotten without explicitly using it; also, in Jorawer Singh Mundy vs. Union of India & Ors, the court dealt with both the right to privacy and the right to forget concurrently. With the rise of various social media platforms, where information spreads in seconds, people's awareness of the Right to Forget has grown. The main aim of the paper is to discuss the right to forget as a standalone provision and also to spread awareness about it in public. After going through this paper one will understand the importance and its global acceptability as well as in India.