The “Law on Oblivion” was adopted in final reading

The State Duma adopted the so-called “law on the right to be forgotten” in the third reading. The RBC agency reports this. The law may come into force on January 1, 2016.

The first version of the bill was introduced on May 29 and adopted in the first reading on June 16. After this, numerous complaints were received against the law, including from representatives of Internet companies. One of the main drawbacks was the need to remove reliable information published more than 3 years ago.

By the second reading, 32 amendments to the bill were received, of which 14 were adopted. Thus, the applicant will have to indicate links that need to be removed from the search results for some reason (previously - only the reason ). In addition, search engines should not delete reliable but outdated information. Now we are talking about “irrelevant, having lost significance for the applicant due to subsequent events or actions of the applicant.” The application review period has been increased from three to 10 days.

The applicant will also be required to provide evidence that the information to which the link he wishes to remove is out of date. Thus, an official will be able to delete a link to information about himself only after completing his service, and he will have to provide the corresponding document. The user will also not be able to delete information about crimes committed if the period for prosecution has not yet expired.

The “Right to be Forgotten Law” provides the opportunity to remove from the results of any search engine information about yourself that is outdated, spoils your reputation, or is untrue. For example, this could be a report of a petty crime that was committed many years ago, links to homemade revenge porn, slander, mocking photographs and data with gross errors.