The right to be forgotten as a "new right" of man in to the digitalized society

Abstract

The purpose of the study is to comprehend and highlight the key ones moments of the phenomenon of "new human rights", in particular the right to be forgotten. Method. The research methodology is a set of philosophical and general scientific methods. Determinants are the method of dialectics, comparative and hermeneutic, as well as sociocultural and axiological approaches. Results. It is shown that the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have a rich research experience in understanding the phenomenon of human rights, but it does not ground for claiming that humanity has a finite and complete human rights concept. It turns out that the list of human rights is there an open system that is supplemented by new rights that are determined by socio-cultural factors. Such factors of "new human rights" on the current stage of human progress are the rapid development of information technologies (IT), the Internet, the consequences of the fourth industrial revolution and the specifics of post-industrial society. The article pays special attention to the "right to be forgotten", which today is ambiguous for meaningful content and does not have a clear mechanism for ensuring and protecting, despite being effective in the EU. Scientific novelty. In the article, it turns out that the "right to be forgotten" in its content is close to the law protection of personal and private life, and by their ideological values – with tolerance. Practical significance. The results of the study can be used in further philosophical and theoretical and legal scientific research, preparation of special courses.