@inbook{9691b684ca064b2db877ae1e35a39e5b,
title = "Timing the Right to be Forgotten: A study into {"}time{"} as a factor in deciding about retention or erasure of data",
abstract = "The so-called “Right to Be Forgotten or Erasure” (RTBF), article 17 of the proposed General Data Protection Regulation, provides individuals with a means to oppose the often persistent digital memory of the Web. Because digital information technologies affect the accessibility of information over time and time plays a fundamental role in biological forgetting,{\textquoteleft}time{\textquoteright} is a factor that should play a pivotal role in the RTBF.This chapter explores the roles that {\textquoteleft}time{\textquoteright} plays and could plain decisions regarding the retention or erasure of data. Two roles are identified: (1) {\textquoteleft}time{\textquoteright} as the marker of a discrete moment where the grounds for retention no longer hold and {\textquoteleft}forgetting{\textquoteright} of the data should follow and (2) {\textquoteleft}time{\textquoteright} as a factor in the balance of interests, as adding or removing weight to the request to {\textquoteleft}forget{\textquoteright} personal information or its opposing interest. The chapter elaborates on these two roles from different perspectives and highlights the importance and underdeveloped understanding of the second role.",
author = "P.E.I. Korenhof and Ivan Szekely and Meg Ambrose and G. Sartor and R.E. Leenes",
year = "2015",
month = jan,
day = "14",
doi = "10.1007/978-94-017-9385-8__7",
language = "English",
isbn = "978-94-017-9385-8",
series = "Law, Governance and Technology Series",
publisher = "Springer",
pages = "171--201",
editor = "S. Gutwirth and R.E. Leenes and {De Hert}, P.",
booktitle = "Reforming European Data Protection Law",
address = "Germany",
}