International congress “Right to be forgotten versus right to remember”
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In May 2016, the European Parliament adopted a new regulation intended to enhance the natural persons’ protection with regard to the processing of their personal data. At this end, a “right to be forgotten” has been introduced. What are its implications for the archives sector and how will personal data have to be dealt with in public archives? And what about the right to remember? In order to make a first assessment, the State Archives in Belgium are organizing on October 10th 2016 an international congress on the “Right to be forgotten versus right to remember”.
On May 4th 2016 the European Parliament adopted a new Regulation on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data (General Data Protection Regulation (gdpr)).
The gdpr introduces some new individual rights, such as the right to erasure or “right to be forgotten” (art. 17). Archivists and everyone re-using archival documents for research purposes – such as historians, jurists, investigation journalists, staff of study and documentation centers, representatives of family and local history associations and many more – are worried about the impact of the “right to be forgotten” on their activities and they actually wonder to which extent archives still will be able to meet criteria such as accessibility, reliability, authenticity, completeness, etc.