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It is the petitioner's submission that the first respondent, Ministry of Communication and IT Department of Electronic and Information Technology, is the nodal agency that regulates and formulates the policies of the Government in relation to information technology, electronics and the internet, in light of which it should compel the second respondent, an intermediary to de-index the links to the page.

iii)no longer relevant, or iv)excessive in relation to the purposes of the processing at issue. This was to be applicable even to information published lawfully and that was factually correct. The CJEU held:

[I]t is undisputed that activity of search engines plays a decisive role in the overall dissemination of those data in W.P.(C).Nos.26500/2020 & con.cases that it renders the latter accessible to any internet user making a search on the basis of the data subject's name, including to internet users who otherwise would not have found the web page on which those data are published.

28. The right to be forgotten is derived from the broader category of the right to privacy. Cécile de Terwangne in her paper "Internet Privacy and the Right to be Forgotten/ Right to Oblivion", defines the right to be forgotten as 'the right for natural persons to have information about them W.P.(C).Nos.26500/2020 & con.cases deleted after a certain period of time.' The basis of this right to be forgotten being 'internet privacy', this concept relates to individual autonomy, rather than secrecy or intimacy. Terwangne writes:

In the context of the Internet this dimension of privacy means informational autonomy or informational self determination. The Internet handles huge quantities of information relating to individuals. Such personal data are frequently processed: it is disclosed, disseminated, shared, selected, downloaded, registered and used in all kinds of ways. In this sense, the individual autonomy is in direct relation to personal information. Information self determination means the control over one's personal information, the individual's right to decide which information about themselves will be disclosed, to whom and for what purpose.