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GDPR Right to erasure (‘right to be forgotten’) The data subject shall have the right to obtain from the controller the erasure of personal data concerning him or her. At a glance The GDPR introduces a right for individuals to have personal data erased. The right to erasure is also known as ‘the right to be forgotten’. Individuals can make a request for erasure verbally or in writing.
You have one month to respond to a request. This right is not an absolute right which means that it only applies in certain situations. Data Subjects have the right to obtain erasure from the data controller, without undue delay, if one of the following applies: 1. The controller doesn’t need the data anymore 2. The subject uses their right to object (Article 21) to the data processing 4. There is a legal requirement for the data to be erased 6. If a controller makes the data public, then they are obligated to take reasonable steps to get other processors to erase the data, e. A website publishes an untrue story on an individual, and later is required to erase it, and also must reques. Data might not have to be erased if any of the following apply: 1. See full list on consent. The “right of freedom and expression” 2. The need to adhere to legal compliance, e. Reasons of public interest in the area of public health 4. Scientific, historical research or public interest archiving purposes 5. For supporting legal claims, e. Non-electronic documents which are not (to be) file (i.e. it’s data you can’t search for), e. Some personal data sets are impossible (or infeasible) to edit to remove individual records, e. Whilst these uneditable data sets are in-scope of the era.
Once an organisation understands where all a subject’s personal data resides, an assessment must be made of what can be, should be, can’t be, and is infeasible to be erased. The exceptions above will commonly apply, such as legal requirements for data retention. But this doesn’t mean that the controller should keep the records “live” in an online system. To best protect the personal data it ideally should be archived away to a more protected and locked down system that meets the retention requirements and also goes as far as possible at meeting the data subject’s desire to be erased. Importantly, these exceptions can’t be used as an override, e. The Principles of GDPR should keep the controller focused on best serving the rights of the data subject as much as possible, whilst meeting their wider requirements.
Erasure is an area where there is no black and white on what must be done. Every organisation, every record and every piece of technology used will require a case by case assessment. For example, some processors provide more granular control of deletion of individual records in cold backups. The key is to focus on what your rationale would be if you were stood in front of the regulator (e.g. ICO in the UK) or a judge in court.
Would you be confident that you had a justifiable position on doing the “right thing” by the data subjects, doing the best you could and had given this enough focus and documented thought? Under article of the GDPR individuals have the right to have their personal data erased. However, this right is not absolute and only applies in certain circumstances. It is imperative for an organization processing personal data that it is prepared for the eventuality that the data subject invokes this right. The obligation and the relatively short response time means that the organization must have strong working processes to receive a request, check whether there are reasons to continue processing the data, delete the data if applicable and inform the data subject about the action taken and any reasons to keep (a part of) the data.
If you (the controller) have made the data public, you have the obligation to inform the recipients of the erasure and take ‘reasonable steps’ to have the data removed. You might be allowed or obliged to keep the data if: 1. You must comply with a legal obligation, e. There are grounds of public interest in the area of public health, 4. It is needed for the exercise or defense of legal claims. In some cases, it is impossible or very expensive to erase date, e. Or, when there is a legal obligation or other reason why you must keep processing the data or part of it, the reason why and for how long (the retention period). Mind you, just having the data in an archive is well within the definition of ‘processing’, unless you have irretrievably anonymized the data. This article has been written by guest author Leo Besemer.
Request a Demo to Learn More. The GDPR provides that individuals have the right to have their personal data erased if: the personal data is no longer necessary for the purpose which you initially collected or processed it for you are relying on consent as your lawful basis for holding the data, and the individual withdraws their. Cases in which a Data Subject can Invoke the Right to Erasure. The Right to Erasure and the GDPR Context of the Right to Erasure.
Exceptions to the Right to. Although the concept currently exists under EU law, it is currently applicable under very limited circumstances, when data processing may result in damage or distress. GDPR dictates that the Right to Erasure is for personal data only.
However, upon further inspection, this right is not as absolute as it may seem. In an ongoing series, MyCustomer speaks with a panel of experts to try to bring clarity to some of the more opaque areas of the impending General Data Protection Regulation ( GDPR ). Before embarking concrete steps towards data deletion, the decision on whether to erase needs to be made. Policies and procedures need to specify the different scenarios where the organization can deviate from the obligation to grant the right to erasure.
Rectification and erasure.