So this is still a gray area, the law explicitly says that you should erase all data. So there can’t be any information that could that could be traced to you.

So this is still a gray area, the law explicitly says that you should erase all data. So there can’t be any information that could that could be traced to you. Even if you do encrypt the data to let’s say “xuiidha” this is an identifier and therefore under the law. If I look at the encrypted data before I delete the surrogate key and can see that this data is related to a person x. That’s an identifier. Even if I do delete that afterwards I can still connect that information because I’ve seen the data before. And even if you delete something there might be enough information left to still figure out who that person was and then under the law. The right to be erased does mean that there shouldn’t be any traces of you ever been there in the first place and the law is pretty clear about it. It’s not the weaker term “deleted”. But I guess there has to a ruling in some court before we know how they interprete this law.