Erasure Request
What is Erasure Request?
A formal request from a data subject asking an organization to delete their personal data, triggering an obligation to comply unless exemptions apply.
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What the standards actually require on erasure request
Requirements naming erasure request across 4 standards, quoted from the control text.
On an erasure request the controller first establishes whether an Article 17(1) ground applies (data no longer necessary, including after a prior Article 21(6) objection; consent withdrawn, after which data must be erased absent another basis;
edpb-guidelines-1-2026-on-processing-of-personal-data-for-scientific-research-purposes::6.2 · 6.2 Erasure requests: test the Article 17(1) grounds, then the Article 17(3)(d) exception restrictively and case by case, and warn of it in advance →The controller must tell the data subject in writing, without undue delay and within the applicable time period, whether a rectification, erasure or restriction request is granted and, if refused, the reasons and the rights to ask the Commissioner to check, co...
uk-data-protection-act-2018::s.48 · Section 48 Rectification and erasure requests: decisions and notifications →The controller must erase personal data without undue delay where they are no longer needed, consent is withdrawn and no other basis exists, the data subject objects under Article 21(1) with no overriding grounds or objects to direct marketing, the processing...
uk-gdpr-uk-general-data-protection-regulation::Art.17 · Article 17 Right to erasure ('right to be forgotten') →The head of an institution designates a data protection officer; every person, institution or public body whose activities involve regular and systematic large-scale monitoring or whose core activities involve special personal data must designate one, trained,...
uganda-data-protection-and-privacy-act-2019::s6 · Data protection officer →Questions people ask about erasure request
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