[waynesonfire]

I was recently browsing the terms and agreements of a Swiss online merchant and stumbled upon this,

'Swiss law requires us to archive business data for 10+ years. This means that we do not have the right to "forget" you.' [1]

It's unclear to me how Europeans have a right to be forgotten given the above.

[1] https://www.swissmicros.com/terms.php

[noodlesUK]

Switzerland isn’t part of the EU. They are free to have laws that conflict with the EU’s laws.

[waynesonfire]

Ah, of course. And the GDPR section on their site is probably for their EU customers.

[taffer]

This is why laws have exceptions, e.g. one has the right to require that information about oneself be deleted, unless there is another law that requires the retention of the information.