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construction of Article 12(b) and subparagraph (a) of
the first paragraph of Article 14 of Directive 95/46
and Article 17(1) of Regulation 2016/679, where a
search engine operator grants a request for dereferencing pursuant to those provisions, that
operator is not required to carry out that dereferencing on all versions of its search engine, but on
the versions of that search engine corresponding to all
the Member States, using, where necessary, measures
which, while meeting the legal requirements,
effectively prevent or, at the very least, seriously
discourage an internet user conducting a search from
one of the Member States on the basis of a data
subject’s name from gaining access, via the list of
results displayed following that search, to the links
which are the subject of that request.”
10.Presently, there is no statue which recognizes right to be
forgotten but it is in sync with the right to privacy, which was
hailed by the Apex Court as an integral part of Article 21 (right
to life) in K.S. Puttaswamy (Privacy-9J.).6 However, the
Ministry of Law and Justice, on recommendations of Justice
B.N. Srikrishna Committee, has included the Right to be
forgotten which refers to the ability of an individual to limit,
delink, delete, or correct the disclosure of the personal
information on the internet that is misleading, embarrassing, or
irrelevant etc. as a statutory right in Personal Data Protection
Bill, 2019. The Supreme Court in K.S. Puttaswamy (Privacy9J.)has held right to be let alone as part of essential nature of
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