{"id":113226,"date":"2021-06-19T10:28:11","date_gmt":"2021-06-19T04:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=113226"},"modified":"2021-06-21T14:59:24","modified_gmt":"2021-06-21T09:29:24","slug":"delhi-high-courts-order-upholds-right-to-be-forgotten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/delhi-high-courts-order-upholds-right-to-be-forgotten\/","title":{"rendered":"Delhi High Court\u2019s order upholds \u2018Right to be Forgotten\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Synopsis<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recently, in response to a petition, the Delhi High Court ordered the removal of easy access from one of its own judgments. Delhi HC upheld the petitioner&#8217;s right to be forgotten to prevent post-acquittal disgrace faced by him. However, some experts have criticized the order, stating that minor modifications would have yielded better results than complete revocation.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>Background<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:<\/span><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Delhi HC gave temporary relief to a petitioner. He sought the removal of the judgment from leading database platforms and search engines after his acquittal.<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The court asked search engines to remove this order from search results. It ordered the database platform to block the judgment from being accessed by search engines.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It recognized that the petitioner may have a right to be forgotten, which must be balanced with the right of the public to access courts of record.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is the first instance of a court ordering the removal of access to its complete final judgment from certain spaces.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><b>About Right to be forgotten:<\/b><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a right to remove private information about a person from public access.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It allows an individual to determine the development of their life in an autonomous way and prevents perpetual stigmatization for past conduct.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 2017, the Supreme Court held it to be a part of the Right to privacy. The court deduced that a lot of personal information may serve no \u201clegitimate interest\u201d, was unnecessary or irrelevant and hence can be taken down.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><b>Issues associated with Right to Forgotten<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:<\/span><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>First<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, there are <\/span><b>no concrete provisions or guideline<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">s to determine the ambit of \u2018Right to be forgotten\u2019. It is dependent on the discretion of individual courts and the status of individuals. For instance, a public figure may find greater difficulties in exercising this right.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Second<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, there is<\/span><b> no clarity on information uploaded by 3rd parties<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> like a journalist or news agency. There is a broad consensus that one should be empowered to remove the information upheld by him\/her over the internet.<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, removing 3rd party information may muzzle fair criticism of government policies and the media&#8217;s right to report.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">U.S Supreme court in <\/span><b>New York Times Co. v. Sullivan (1964),<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> ruled that public interest reporting may continue without fear as long as it did not intentionally or recklessly make outright false statements.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Third<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the removal of complete judgments <\/span><b>may not allow public scrutiny of judicial performance <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">to ascertain the fairness and objectivity of the administration of justice.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Fourth<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the removal sometimes <\/span><b>creates a Streisand effect<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. It is a social phenomenon that occurs when an attempt to hide, remove or censor information has the unintended consequence of further publicizing that information.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Way Forward<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As per some experts, narrow tailoring of the judgment would have been more beneficial than forbidding access to its complete judgment.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The court could have ordered that the name and personal details of the petitioner be censored while maintaining public access to the judgment itself.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thus, the right to be forgotten must be studied along with the concepts of fair criticism and accountability.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Source<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: <a href=\"https:\/\/epaper.thehindu.com\/Home\/ShareArticle?OrgId=GIV8M5ERK.1&amp;imageview=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click Here<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Read Also :<a class=\"seoquake-params-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/misuse-of-sedition-law-in-india\/\" rel=\"3e0897d4 x_url\">-Misuse of Sedition law in India<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Synopsis: Recently, in response to a petition, the Delhi High Court ordered the removal of easy access from one of its own judgments. Delhi HC upheld the petitioner&#8217;s right to be forgotten to prevent post-acquittal disgrace faced by him. However, some experts have criticized the order, stating that minor modifications would have yielded better results&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/delhi-high-courts-order-upholds-right-to-be-forgotten\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Delhi High Court\u2019s order upholds \u2018Right to be Forgotten\u2019<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,1351,1310,9],"tags":[1301,1581,5761],"class_list":["post-113226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-daily-news","category-daily-news-updates","category-public","tag-po_3","tag-po_9","tag-right-to-be-forgotten","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":1700811474,"cached_date":1704887310},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}