Learn in the textbookInternational and Adjacent Personal Data Laws — My Number Act and GDPR
DefinitionThe right to erasure (消去権) is a right in the GDPR that lets individuals require a business to delete their personal data.
ExplanationIt is set out in Article 17 of the GDPR, and a business (the controller) must delete the data without undue delay when the conditions are met. Those conditions include, for example, the data no longer being needed for the purpose it was collected for, or the person withdrawing consent. A deletion request can still be refused in some cases, such as data the law requires to be kept.
AnalogyIt is like formally asking a shop you have quit as a member to dispose of your record in its member list. Unless the shop has a valid reason, it must agree to the request.
Memory hookErase shares its root with eraser, so picture it as the right to make a business rub your data out with an eraser.