The European Court of Human Rights has ruled against an individual's right to be forgotten. The case, which previously went through Belgian courts, involved a request to a media outlet seeking to clear potentially damaging information about an individual from the archives on the publication's website. The ECHR found the publisher was not obligated "to check their archives on a systematic and permanent basis" and would not need to do so in the future "unless they received an express request to that effect."
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