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Compliance Glossary

Our list of curated compliance glossary offers everything you to know about compliance in one place.

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Right To Be Forgotten

The Right to be Forgotten is a right that is afforded to every individual under article 17 of the GDPR. It states that any individual can invoke the right to have their personal information completely erased from the data controller’s records without undue delay (which amounts to about 30 days of request) This is done to afford data subjects affords data subjects actionability in cases where they feel their information is no longer required to be processed or if they think it is being stored unnecessarily. 

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