Forget to start again.
The Right to be Forgotten, identifies the fundamental right of every person not to remain indefinitely exposed to damage to their honor and reputation caused by the repeated publication of a piece of news.
Initially, this right was applied exclusively in the context of news reporting, to prevent the republishing and rehashing of past news. Today, however, this right is defined as “the right of everyone to control the information about themselves.” It thus becomes an instrumental right to protect the reputation of victims of defamatory conduct such as cyberbullying and the non-consensual sharing of intimate material.
Indeed—as previously recognized—with the entry into force of Article 17 of the GDPR, every data subject of the European Union has the right to obtain from the data controller, without undue delay, the erasure of their personal data if (among other circumstances) they have been disclosed without the data subject’s consent. Failure to comply with this requirement will result in the data controllers becoming liable and the injured party being entitled to compensation for damages (Article 82 of the GDPR).
What can certainly be observed, therefore, is that the right to be forgotten on the Internet has over time come to be identified with the right to de-indexing, an important tool for curbing the dissemination of material that is harmful to the reputation of the depicted subject.