Karnataka High Court recently added the “right to be forgotten” to the long list of rights available to individuals in India. This right allows an individual to request removal of their personal information/data online.
In Sri Vasunathan v The Registrar General, the petitioner filed a writ petition seeking the removal of his daughter’s name from the high court’s digital record of a judgment passed by the court to the extent that it would not be visible for search engines such as Google and Yahoo. The petitioner’s daughter feared that the case would appear if someone did a search for her name and this could have repercussions even affecting her relationship with her husband and her reputation in the society.
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The dispute digest is compiled by Bhasin & Co, Advocates, a corporate law firm based in New Delhi.
The authors can be contacted at lbhasin@bhasinco.in or lbhasin@gmail.com. Readers should not act on the basis of this information without seeking professional legal advice.
