The Right to be Forgotten

Paul De Hert; Vagelis Papakonstantinou

The Right to be Forgotten

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Abstract

Article 17 GDPR is about a right to have personal data deleted and not about any ‘right to be forgotten’: its paragraph 1 expressly states that ‘the data subject shall have the right to obtain from the controller the erasure of personal data con- cerning him or her without undue delay and the controller shall have the obligation to erase per- sonal data without undue delay’. The specificity of the wording leaves little doubt as to the exact scope of Article 17 of the GDPR.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Elgar Encyclopedia of Law and Data Science
Editors	Giovanni Comandé
Publisher	Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd.
Pages	175-181
ISBN (Print)	9781839104589
Publication status	Published - 1 Feb 2022

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right to be forgotten
data protection

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