1 Amendments of Stefano MAULLU related to 2017/2209(INI)
Amendment 80 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Maintains – without detracting from freedom of information, the object being to temper the right of reporting with the right to be forgotten, once a given period has passed, on the understanding that persons and facts should be excluded when they are of such public importance that they cannot be forgotten – that facts which have ceased to be of public interest should be taken out of the information circuit by being deleted from indexes, and made inaccessible via reference links, in news agency search engines and databases and that this should be done five years after the time of publication, provided that the facts in question do not relate to cases still ongoing, especially in the form of legal proceedings; calls for the above period to be extended to ten years when facts relate to persons who are public figures to the extent that they are involved in political, business, or professional activities, or, at any rate, occupy a prominent social position, and therefore attract more widespread and intense public interest;