Poisoning of oblivion

The State Duma adopted in the second reading a bill on the “right to oblivion”, which obliges Internet search engines according to citizens' requirements to remove the links to information regarding the applicants from the results of issuing. This is reported by Interfax.

The document entered in the lower ward at the end of May caused dissatisfaction with the Internet industry. In mid -June, when the bill had already passed the first reading, the deputies after the intervention of the first deputy head of the Presidential Administration Vyacheslav Volodin promised to adjust the document to the second reading.

However, as noted on Monday, Vedomosti, after adjustment, the bill did not essentially change . Deputies really excluded from him a norm that allows a citizen to demand the removal of references to reliable data on events that occurred more than 3 years ago. However, the publication noted, in fact, this right is still provided for. Only the wording has changed - now a citizen can achieve the removal of irrelevant information, "having lost its value for the applicant due to subsequent events or actions." At the same time, the bill does not specify whether it is about reliable information or not.

The legal administration of the State Duma criticized the adjustments, indicating, in particular, to the unclear formulation "Irentially information about a citizen who has lost its value." Information that has lost significance for the citizen himself can still remain important for other citizens and for society as a whole, the management of management is noted. Lawyers also noticed that the norm proposed for the second reading is fraught with violation of the constitutional right of citizens to receive and use information.

A negative review of the document was also given by the government .

Nevertheless, the Duma Committee on Information Policy insists on the adoption of the bill. At the same time, deputies refer to European experience. In June 2014, the Public Chamber recommended the State Duma to adopt a norm similar to the decision of the European Court in Luxembourg, according to which any citizen of the European Union may require the search engine to remove the link to “useless”, “incorrect” and “outdated” information from the search results. This right is called in the decision "the right to oblivion."

As expected, the Russian bill should enter into force on January 1, 2016.