Over the past few years, we have witnessed a true information revolution, Google, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and many other social networks or web portals that we could not imagine years ago are now part of our everyday lives. The world wide web has completely changed our way of life in the majority to the better, but it also brought countless hidden risks. If we wanted to see an article from the newspaper again, we would actually have to search it physically in the archive, which would be almost impossible for certain data to be found. Today, a web search engine is enough to find (publicly accessible) data within seconds. Search engines merely index data that is posted on the world wide web, but indexing, from the point of view of personal rights protection, can be much more harmful than putting the data on the web itself, since by displaying many information about a particular person, it is possible to create profiles. Legislation did not follow technological and social progress for a long time. In 2014 we witnessed the first judgment in this field before the European Union Court - Google vs. Spain. The concept refers to the right of an individual to be able to demand from the search engine provider to delete data, which would result in not being displayed in the results if you were searching with an online search engine by the name and surname of the individual. The problem is that the information is deleted only from the records of a particular provider, but it is not completely deleted from the Internet. Theoretically it could be found with another web search engine or the installation of additional software. With the new General Data Protection Regulation we have come close to "The right to be forgotten on the Internet," but in the end, practice will show whether this is the case. In this master thesis, I will first present what is the subject of protection, what issues come forward when it comes to the question of who and where is responsible for data processing, what rights does a person have and if something like the internet is able to forget.
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