Digital forgetting in the age of on-line media: The forensics for establishing a comprehensive right to cyber-oblivion

Forensic engineering generally is defined as the investigation of questions, events and conditions having possible legal ramifications through the application of engineering principles and methodologies. In the age of social media where it is almost impossible to escape your past on the Internet, the right to be forgotten enhances the ability of the individual to control the use of his or her personal data. Such a right has been recognized by the CJEU in the Google Spain case as far as search engines are concerned. With the adoption of the Data Protection Regulation by the EU it will form part of the EU legal framework in data protection.