Right to Restriction
What is Right to Restriction?
The data subject's right to limit how an organization processes their personal data under specified circumstances while the data is retained.
Terms that appear alongside right to restriction
Each of these is named in at least one of the same controls as right to restriction. The number is how many controls name both.
- right to object 12 shared controls
- data subject 12 shared controls
- automated decision making 12 shared controls
- data subject rights 11 shared controls
- consent 10 shared controls
- data portability 10 shared controls
- profiling 8 shared controls
- right to be forgotten 8 shared controls
Frameworks that govern right to restriction
What the standards actually require on right to restriction
Requirements naming right to restriction across 6 standards, quoted from the control text.
Restrict processing on request where the data subject contests the accuracy of the data, for a period enabling the controller to verify it; where the processing is unlawful and the data subject opposes erasure and asks for restriction instead;
GDPR-Art.18 · Right to restriction of processing →The data subject may obtain restriction while accuracy is verified, where processing is unlawful and erasure is opposed, where the controller no longer needs the data but the data subject needs it for legal claims, or pending verification of an objection.
montenegro-law-on-personal-data-protection-2026::19 · Article 19: right to restriction of processing →The data subject may ask the controller to restrict use of the data (1) while the controller examines a section 36 request; (2) where data due for erasure under section 33(4) is instead restricted at the data subject's request;
pdpa-thailand::S34 · Section 34 Right to restriction of use →The data subject, or the supervisory authority, may restrict the controller's processing for a given period where the accuracy of the data is contested pending verification, where processing is unlawful and the data subject requests erasure or restriction of u...
rwanda-dpl::22 · Right to restriction of processing →The data subject may have processing restricted while accuracy is contested, where processing is unlawful but they prefer restriction to erasure, where the controller no longer needs the data but the data subject needs them for legal claims, or pending verific...
uk-gdpr-uk-general-data-protection-regulation::Art.18 · Article 18 Right to restriction of processing →Chapter II Sections 14-23 establish data subject rights and transparency obligations. Section 14 (Right to Information) requires controller to provide privacy notice at or before collection covering: identity + contact of controller + processor + DPO + purpose...
HU-INFOTV-Chap2-Transparency-DataSubject-Rights-Sections-14-23 · HU Infotv Chap II - Transparency + Data Subject Rights to Information, Access, Rectification, Erasure, Restriction (Sections 14-23) →Questions people ask about right to restriction
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