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Glossary: Cloud and Data Security

Right to be forgotten

Also written: right to erasure, right to delete, erasure request

A person's right to have their personal data deleted everywhere, including processors' copies. Records that other laws require are kept with the person removed, as forget.py does for Lee.

Where the book teaches it

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GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation)CCPA (California Consumer Privacy Act)Legal holdData subject