Does 'the right to be forgotten' ruling threaten our right to know?

Author of a book about the controversial court ruling set to speak about its implications alongside a Google executive

In May 2014, the European Court of Justice ruled that people had a "right to be forgotten". So individuals could have links to articles about them expunged from search engines.

It meant that the most popular search engine, Google, was required to delete "inadequate, irrelevant or no longer relevant" data from its results whenever a member of the public requested it.