Heritage of digital information and the right to forget in social networks on line: a systematic literature review

Abstract

With the evolution and expansion of the Internet, we can observe the creation and diffusion of Online Social Networks, which are digital services to connect different users, through public or semi-public profiles. In this scenario, studies are beginning on social networks and their unfolding in society, such as digital inheritance, understood in a broad sense, such as the digital archive - photos, messages, videos, etc. – left in life, by the user. After the inactivity of a user profile, due to his death, it is very important to give due treatment to this inheritance left by him. Therefore, the Right to Forgetfulness appears as a legal provision, which at its core proposes, on the one hand, the right to access information and freedom of expression and, on the other, the right to privacy and intimacy, capable of protecting the holder of determined data the faculty of seeing it erased, suppressed or blocked. Thus, the present article presents the result of a Systematic Review of Literature, with the purpose of verifying the current scenario of research on the Right to Forgetfulness and digital inheritance in the context of Online Social Networks and identifying under which focus the studies are being performed. It was possible to verify that in the current scenario of a society permeated by the resources offered by Information and Communication Technologies, most research focuses on the principles of intimacy and privacy, under the prerogative of the individual in face of this new society, which requires quick and legitimate answers for the preservation of his image and personality in the spaces where he passes.