Sammendrag
This thesis critically examines the ‘right to be forgotten’ from online press archives in the context of Articles 8 and 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights, with particular emphasis on the recent Grand Chamber judgment Hurbain v. Belgium. There, the European Court of Human Rights adjusted the criteria relevant to balancing Articles 8 and 10 of the Convention as developed in the seminal Grand Chamber judgments Axel Springer AG v. Germany and Von Hannover v. Germany (No. 2). Against this background, the thesis attempts to answer the following two questions: (i) To what extent the development of these new criteria is a result of temporality in tandem with the technological features of the Internet and (ii) to what extent the latter two elements are explicitly reflected in the new balancing criteria. To adequately answer these questions, the thesis engages in an analysis of the entire set of new balancing criteria whilst subjecting the Court’s reasoning to both immanent and external critique.