Abstract:

Since 1995, EU legislators have been enhancing the protection of personal data, and right to be forgotten has become a major concept in EU’s personal data protection legislation, which is now subjected to reasonable restrictions after three stages In the international society, there are two different approaches to the right to be forgotten: the general approach and the special approach EU is the model of the former approach; and the latter approach includes US and other countries Considering that the right to be forgotten does not produce the prospective substancial effects, but incurs huge burdens to the development of Internet industry, and considering that the existing normative system has already provided sufficient protection to personal data and privacy, and therefore, it is unnecessary to import right to be forgotten or arbitrarily expands its scope To the contrary, the effective protection of personal data and privacy should avail of institutions such as data minimization and privacy by design Meanwhile, China should proactively participate in the formulation of international Internet governance rules

Key words:  right to be forgotten, Internet governance, protection of personal data