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.
Right to Rectification — under 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.
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