Reply to post: Re: Right to be forgotten is a date field in your file

UK infoseccer launches petition asking government not to backdoor encryption

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Re: Right to be forgotten is a date field in your file

As we've been implementing it (miscellaneous banking industry) it not only stops data from being provided in any kind of information requests but also from being user-searchable past the forget-about-me date, though it will linger forever in the database (or its backups) and can be retrieved by IT at any given time - following proper channels, hopefully.

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