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On March 9, 2017 the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) came forward with a decision on the Manni Case C-398/15, which clarified several key aspects of the right to be forgotten and more specifically some of the conditions under which the right can be exercised in pursuance of the erasure of data stored in public registers. The right to erasure, widely known as the right to be “forgotten”, emerged from CJEU’s case-law after the renowned Google Spain decision from the spring of 2014.

Anonymising technologies have gradually become an important tool in the protection of citizens‘ and human rights activists‘ privacy. Many of these technologies are also used for illegal purposes by terrorists and organised crimes groups that aim to remain anonymous in order to escape criminal prosecution. Privacy has never been a subject of so much debate, yet it has also never been as jeopardised by mass surveillance as it is now. The present article has two parts. The first analyses the technical background of anonymising technologies and the second focuses on the legal issues emerging from their pervasive use.

Anonymising technologies have gradually become an important tool in the protection of citizens‘ and human rights activists‘ privacy. Many of these technologies are also used for illegal purposes by terrorists and organised crimes groups that aim to remain anonymous in order to escape criminal prosecution. Privacy has never been a subject of so much debate, yet it has also never been as jeopardised by mass surveillance as it is now. The present article has two parts. The first analyses the technical background of anonymising technologies and the second focuses on the legal issues emerging from their pervasive use.