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The right to erasure (or "right to be forgotten") has become a major flashpoint in the courts and public opinion of the potential and limits of data protection law to empower individuals to control their data. This is the first book to focus on the right to erasure in the context of Article 17 of the GDPR, its theory, history, and legal scope.
List of contents
- 1: Introduction
- Part I - The Right to Erasure in EU Data Protection Law
- 2: Foundations of Data Protection Law
- 3: Scope of the Right to Erasure
- 4: Conditions of the Right to Erasure
- Part II - Balancing and Data Protection
- 5: Balancing in the GDPR
- 6: Balancing Scenarios
- 7: Open Questions on Balancing in the GDPR
- Part III - Effectiveness
- 8: Making the Right to Erasure Work in Practice
- 9: Summary and Conclusion
About the author
Jef Ausloos is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Amsterdam's Institute for Information law (IViR) and an affiliated researcher at the KU Leuven's Centre for IT & IP Law.
Jef holds degrees in law from the Universities of Namur, Leuven and Hong Kong and has worked as an International Fellow at the Center for Democracy & Technology and the Electronic Frontier Foundation. His research centres around data-driven power asymmetries and the normative underpinnings of individual control, empowerment and autonomy in modern-day, largely privatised information ecosystems.
His PhD-thesis (2018), which formed the basis of this book, received two prestigious awards: the Council of Europe's Stefano Rodotà award and the International Institute of Human Rights' Rene Cassin Prize.
Summary
The right to erasure (or "right to be forgotten") has become a major flashpoint in the courts and public opinion of the potential and limits of data protection law to empower individuals to control their data. This is the first book to focus on the right to erasure in the context of Article 17 of the GDPR, its theory, history, and legal scope.
