[jacquesm]

Note that the concept of 'free speech' the way it is practiced in the United States is not present in EU law.

Arguing that freedom of speech trumps your privacy rights is a rather twisted interpretation of the UDHR, by that interpretation we have no privacy at all, because after all, anything, once uttered by another person immediately becomes 'free speech'.

Your life belongs to you, and so does the data about you, unless you choose to become a public figure (for instance by seeking public office), or you become one through circumstance (for instance because you crash a cruise ship into a rock and capsize it).

In those cases your right to be forgotten is going to be trumped by the rights of the public to be informed.