Argentina: Supreme Court revoking the ruling of the National Court of Appeals regarding the "right to be forgotten"

On 28 June 2022, the Supreme Court of Argentina overturned the ruling of the National Court of Civil Appeals that recognised the "right to be forgotten" regarding content linked to the past of a public figure that appears in search engines. The Supreme Court ruled that in the case of information related to public figures or persons linked to events of general interest, freedom of expression must prevail over the right to be forgotten. The Court held that any decision ordering the deindexation of the requested information unreasonably restricts the right to freedom of expression, which is a constitutionally protected right, and hence there was no legal or constitutional basis to justify the plaintiff's claim and request for data deletion.