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by realusername 2822 days ago
As with every law, we will see how it's actually used in practice but on my case I did not have much doubts about how it's supposed to be applied, I never understood it as an equivalent on the French one. For me, one of the goals here is when you delete your Facebook account, the data is actually deleted unlike what probably happens now.
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There's been public analysis of the right to be forgotten. A few good reads: A summary article from NPR [1] and a research paper with a lot more details [2].

[1] https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/02/28/589411543...)

[2] https://g.co/research/rtbf_report

That's not the same concept as the one from the GDPR (even if they share the same name).