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What Is Right to Rectification?

Right to Rectification is under the GDPR, the right of a data subject to have inaccurate personal data corrected and incomplete data completed without undue delay.

Definition

Right to Rectificationunder the GDPR, the right of a data subject to have inaccurate personal data corrected and incomplete data completed without undue delay.

Rectification is straightforward for stored records but harder for AI: correcting an inaccurate output, or data baked into a trained model, may not be simple, so organisations need a process for handling such requests. It sits alongside the rights to erasure, access, and objection in the GDPR's data-subject toolkit.

Source: GDPR (Regulation (EU) 2016/679), Article 16

Plain-language explanation

Rectification is straightforward for stored records but harder for AI: correcting an inaccurate output, or data baked into a trained model, may not be simple, so organisations need a process for handling such requests. It sits alongside the rights to erasure, access, and objection in the GDPR's data-subject toolkit.

Primary source: GDPR (Regulation (EU) 2016/679), Article 16

Related terms

Data Subject Rights Right to Erasure Right to Data Portability Right to Object

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