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right to be forgotten

/raɪt tə bi fərˈɡɒtən/ - n.

1 [colloq.] A right honored in production, in staging, in the warehouse, in the lake, in the backups, and in the seventeen exports nobody mapped.Keep. Punchy.This is the problem.

Working definition

2. A data subject's right to have personal data erased where there is no overriding lawful ground to retain it.

Evidence

See also

data dispositionThe least-rehearsed verb in the data lifecycle, and the first one a regulator asks you to demonstrate.
data lineage for auditA diagram that is accurate up to the join where someone exported it to a spreadsheet and emailed it.
data subject access requestA request that, for the first time, forces the organization to find out where it actually keeps that person.
shadow copyThe copy that the deletion request, the lineage diagram, and the retention schedule all politely declined to know about.