
Hurbain v Belgium - Right to be Forgotten
The European Court of Human Rights last week ruled in the case of Hurbain v Belgium Mr Hurbain's newspaper, Le Soir, published an article relating to a driver's conviction for his involvement in a fatal road accident in 1994 and the case relates to the driver's 'right to be forgotten' in relation to this article. The right to be forgotten, or the right to erasure as it is referred to in both the UK and EU GDPR, is the right to have personal data erased by a data controller. I