Sulle stratificazioni del diritto all’oblio: quando sì e come

The Italian Highest Court (Corte di Cassazione) is called, one more time, to pronounce on the “breath” of the right to be forgotten. Focusing on a contentious story linked to the presence, in the historical archive of a newspaper, of news relating to past legal proceedings of a person who has in the meantime passed away, it draws a picture that, with a vein of pragmatic realism, disconnects the protection of the interest in not being exposed to the public domain, where there is no recognizable interest of the community in the knowledge of information, from the claim to erase traces and rewrite history. The result is a first balancing plot by type of cases