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in EU, you can say at any point to a company 'delete every piece of personal information about me that you have', and email is considered an personal informatio

by malka 12y ago

in EU, you can say at any point to a company 'delete every piece of personal information about me that you have', and email is considered an personal information. Even if you gave consent, you can withdraw consent at any point in time.

tomp 12y ago
So, basically, I can tell my bank/credit agency/hospital "please forget that I got a mortgage/defaulted/tested positive for HIV"? Doesn't that sound rather risky?
- Semaphor 12y ago
  There are of course exceptions ;)
- icebraining 12y ago
  It's not like that. You can demand to be informed about when the data is processed and for what purposes, get a copy of it, request corrections and object to processing in certain circumstances. In practice, no, you can't demand to be wiped out from the internal database if you creditor. You probably can prevent them from publishing a debtors' list with your name, though.
- desas 12y ago
  It's not that simple (in the UK at least), you only have to stop processing information if "unwarranted and substantial damage or distress" is being caused.
  - asuffield 12y ago
    Additionally, all stop processing / deletion regulations require a court order, which will be subject to all the usual requirements of justice.
    - vidarh 12y ago
      It only takes a single successful demand before an append-only log because untenable.