IT: Highest Court applies right to be forgotten directly to online-article
by Tobias RaabThe Highest Court of Italy has decided that media have to delete older articles from their online archives in order to secure the right to privacy. The decision was based on a case about media coverage about a lawsuit against an owner of a restaurant on the website PrimaDaNoi.
The plaintiff had asked the website to delete the article after it had been published on the site for more than two years, because he found it to not be relevant anymore and felt violated in his right to be forgotten. After the provider of the website had refused…
