잊혀질 권리에 대한 소고 – 유럽연합 개인정보보호규칙(안)을 중심으로 -

As a new proposal to establish a sweeping new privacy right with an opportunity of General Data Protection Regulation proposed by European Commission in January 2012 the discussion about so called ‘right to be forgotten’ is rapidly spreading worldwide. Rapid distribution and development of internet environment provided space where an individual can express one’s opinion easy and fast however, the possibility of leak in personal information is gradually increasing and execution of control rights of personal information is getting to be more difficult. In the midst of this, appeared as aggressive and strong solution for personal information is the right to be forgotten. The right to be forgotten means it not only stops at simply requesting delete and destroy of personal information but also in case when the storing period of information expires or the purpose of use has been accomplished or when the need of that purpose no longer exists, personal information is automatically deleted. But introduction of counterargument seems challenging as well. Although the right to be forgotten is recognized and individual’s own information control rights can be protected with higher security, the right to be forgotten has intention of constant conflict with the freedom of expression and invade the freedom of business of personal information enterprises. Moreover, it has questionable tasks as to possibility of implementation of the right to be forgotten and how will the associated technical limitation be overcome. Considering such issues the research first describe the main contents of introduction background and progress and ‘regulation’ of EU’s right to be forgotten. Particularly after observing the core contents of regulation in EU’s right to be forgotten and its execution method, analyze the problems and the meanings following introduction of the right to be forgotten.