Legislative Obstacles to the Right to Be Forgotten in China’s Network Environment

Abstract

In recent years, the rapid development of network technology in China has changed our lives and at the same time triggered new challenges to our right to information. Since ancient times, human beings have been trying to challenge to overcome forgetting, and the Internet has changed the law of people’s memory. The right to be forgotten has come into people’s attention since the “Gonzalez v. Google Inc. and Pioneer Newspaper” in the European Union in 2014, which triggered discussions in the academic community, and then the first case of the right to be forgotten in China, “Ren Jiayu v. Baidu”, has pushed the localization of the study of the protection of personal information and the right to be forgotten to a new level in our country. The case of Ren Jiayu v. Baidu, the first case of the right to be forgotten in China, also pushed the protection of personal information and the localization of the right to be forgotten to a climax. However, the right to be forgotten in China is facing multi-level legislative difficulties. In this paper, we will discuss it once and for all.