Right to be Forgotten
The legal right, established in GDPR and other regulations, allowing individuals to request the deletion of their personal data, which has implications for AI models trained on such data.
In plain language
Your legal right to ask a company to delete your personal data. This gets tricky with AI because the model may have already learned from your data; just deleting the file isn't enough.
Why this matters
While the right to be forgotten originates in GDPR, Australian organisations using AI must consider similar obligations under the Privacy Act. Your governance framework must address how deletion requests are processed, whether trained models need retraining, and documentation of deletion actions.
Relevance
GovernanceProcesses for handling deletion requests must be documented and tested to ensure compliance with privacy regulation and to manage the technical challenges of removing training data from deployed models.
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