Do you have the right to be forgotten online? [Video]

Do you have the right to remove your personal information from the Internet? 

The answer is, perhaps surprisingly, more complicated than a simple “yes” or “no,” and it largely depends on where you live.

Around the world, online data privacy laws and regulations keep our personal info safe. Probably the most influential of these laws is the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). 

While the GDPR works fairly well at giving people control over their data, not all countries are compliant with it — including Israel (and a country called the United States of America, by the way).

As an Israeli, if I want information about me taken down from a website, I would need to make a request of the company holding that data (such as Meta or Google, for instance), and then the company would decide whether or not to agree to my request, based on company …