What Is the Right to Erasure?

Also known as the right to erasure, the GDPR gives individuals the right to ask organizations to delete their personal data.

What does right to erasure mean?

The right to get your data deleted is also known as the 'right to erasure'. You can ask an organisation that holds data about you to delete that data. In some circumstances, they must then do so. You may sometimes hear this called the 'right to be forgotten'.

What is right to erasure or blocking?

The right to erasure or blocking

Under the law, you have the right to suspend, withdraw or order the blocking, removal or destruction of your personal data. You can exercise this right upon discovery and substantial proof of the following: Your personal data is incomplete, outdated, false, or unlawfully obtained.