24.1
Summer
2023

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24.1
The Right to Be Forgotten: Google Spain as a Benchmark for Free Speech versus Privacy?
Kyu Ho Youm
Jonathan Marshall First Amendment Chair and Professor, University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication.

The authors express their profound thanks to Dr. Hawley Johnson, Associate Director of Columbia Global Freedom of Expression, for facilitating access to the global RTBF case law archive and related resources for RTBF research.

Ahran Park
Assistant Professor, Korea University School of Media and Communication.

The authors express their profound thanks to Dr. Hawley Johnson, Associate Director of Columbia Global Freedom of Expression, for facilitating access to the global RTBF case law archive and related resources for RTBF research.

Since the Court of Justice of the European Union ruled in Google Spain in 2014, the global legal discourse on the “right to be forgotten” (RTBF) has accelerated the RTBF’s establishment as a right to informational privacy. But international courts have varied in their interpretations and applications of the RTBF, with some embracing it and others being wary of balancing the right with freedom of expression.

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