El conflicto entre el derecho al olvido y la libertad de información de la prensa contenida en hemerotecas

Abstract

As a result of the judgements of the Spanish Constitutional Court of 4th June and the European Court of Human Rights of 28th June, both of 2018, the purpose of this paper is to analyse the conflict between the right to be forgotten and freedom of information in relation to a specific situation: the use of the name and surnames in news contained in digital press archives. Firstly, it is considered if the digital archives of the press are protected by the freedom of information and, secondly, the weighting criteria to balance the rights at issue are studied, especially, the public relevance of the information after the passage of time. Finally, the appropriate measures for the restoration of the right to be forgotten are determined and compared with those provided by the recent legal instruments that have recognized it, in particular, with the GDPR and the LOPDGDD.