The “right to be forgotten” is a data protection law enforced by the European Union since May of 2014 (Gesley). Designed to strengthen online privacy rights, the law allows members of the population to request the removal of “inaccurate, incomplete, or outdated information” that appears when their name is searched online (Daigle). The overarching issue is that the law’s objective to strengthen privacy rights could be used to justify erasing online traces of an individual’s unfavorable behaviour such as criminal offences. The law can be analyzed using two ethical frameworks: utilitarianism…