Where is the "right to be forgotten" a policy?

Question

a.) United States
b.) European Union
c.) Argentina
d.) China

Answer 1

Ans: b.) European Union
FEEDBACK: The European Union (EU) has drafted regulations guaranteeing the right to "obtain from the controller [i.e., the data collector or manager, such as a search engine or online database], the erasure of personal data relating to them and the abstention from further dissemination of such data, especially in relation to personal data which are made available by the data subject while he or she was a child or where the data is no longer necessary for the purpose it was collected for, the subject withdraws consent, the storage period has expired, the data subject objects to the processing of personal data or the processing of data does not comply with other regulation." What this, and the results of a lawsuit against Google in Spanish court, essentially means is that search engine firms now provide Europeans with a form they can fill out to request removal of links to information about themselves that they'd rather not have out there, so to speak. The "right to be forgotten" is now considered a fundamental human right in some jurisdictions.