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DanBC on May 30, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: USA needs law 'a lot like GDPR' says Salesforce CE...

No. Here's the full text of the right to erasure. Pay attention to all the reasons given for why processors can ignore the request to erase data.

https://gdpr-info.eu/art-17-gdpr/

But then look at para 3.

> Paragraphs 1 and 2 shall not apply to the extent that processing is necessary:

> for exercising the right of freedom of expression and information;

SamReidHughes on May 30, 2018 [–]

Then I'm going to store all the information I want, for the purpose of expressing it to others. Oh wait, I can't do that? Somehow the EU has a different definition of "freedom of expression" in mind than what the words actually mean.

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