The local construction of the right to be forgotten

With the emergence of Internet technology and big data technology, the remembering and forgetting of personal information have gradually become unbalanced, and the permanent memory ability of big data has brought more and more important impacts on people's lives. While the browsing history and shopping history of websites bring convenience to people, there is also the fear of being monitored and recorded at all times. It is an inevitable trend for people to seek ways to control their own data information to deal with the drawbacks brought about by the development of big data technology. Therefore, many countries have introduced the right to be forgotten to remedy this situation and protect the right of individuals to control their data information. Comparing the series of legislation in China with the extra-territorial right to be forgotten, identifying the right to erasure and the right to be forgotten in China as different expressions of the same right, analyzing the right to be forgotten from the perspective of the structural system of rights, clarifying the subject, object and content of the right to be forgotten, and proposing ways to further optimize the right to be forgotten in China in terms of both substantive and procedural law.

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Frontiers in Humanities and Social Sciences
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2025-06-18
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https://doi.org/10.54691/5573tf08
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Privacy, Security, and Data Protection
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The local construction of the right to be forgotten

Shuwen Zheng
Frontiers in Humanities and Social Sciences
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The local construction of the right to be forgotten

Shuwen Zheng
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Abstract

With the emergence of Internet technology and big data technology, the remembering and forgetting of personal information have gradually become unbalanced, and the permanent memory ability of big data has brought more and more important impacts on people's lives. While the browsing history and shopping history of websites bring convenience to people, there is also the fear of being monitored and recorded at all times. It is an inevitable trend for people to seek ways to control their own data information to deal with the drawbacks brought about by the development of big data technology. Therefore, many countries have introduced the right to be forgotten to remedy this situation and protect the right of individuals to control their data information. Comparing the series of legislation in China with the extra-territorial right to be forgotten, identifying the right to erasure and the right to be forgotten in China as different expressions of the same right, analyzing the right to be forgotten from the perspective of the structural system of rights, clarifying the subject, object and content of the right to be forgotten, and proposing ways to further optimize the right to be forgotten in China in terms of both substantive and procedural law.

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