This comes back to the idea of reputation management. For many people, when they propose a right to be forgotten, they want the right to be able to erase information that concerns them. For example, it can be disturbing press articles that talk about some things they have done in the past. An article might have appeared in the press last year and, later, they went to a job interview. They would like to be able to erase the information that is recorded.
It's true that we are in a world today where it is increasingly difficult to forget. The Internet doesn't forget, nor does it forgive. People have never been allowed to go to La Presse or the daily newspaper Le Devoir to ask that articles be deleted. A person might say that, since an article is no longer agreeable, we will remove it from the archives and erase it from all the libraries.
I don't see why today, because it's facilitated by technology, we would allow actions like that, which would erase the memory.
However, as someone said earlier, there are a number of other cases of information gathering, which is the case in Globe24h.com. One of my colleagues insisted that this is perhaps the beginning of the right to forgot. When I read the court ruling, which is on pages 70 to 76 of the judgment, I think that the problem is that the collection of information is in violation of the act and is being used for illegal purposes. In this case, it was to extort people by telling them that we would delete data in exchange for money. This is not reputation management. These are just attempts at fraud.