The right to be forgotten (RTBF) is the right to have private information about a person removed from Internet searches and other directories in some circumstances. The issue arose from the desires of individuals to "determine the development of their life in an autonomous way, without being perpetually or periodically stigmatized as a consequence of a specific action performed in the past". The right entitles a person to have data about them deleted so that it can no longer be discovered by third parties, particularly through search engines.