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Closed 8 years ago

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#43920 closed defect (bug) (fixed)

Use the terms erase / erasure instead of remove / removal for personal data

Reported by: allendav Owned by: SergeyBiryukov
Priority: normal Milestone: 4.9.6
Component: Privacy Version: 5.1
Severity: normal Keywords: gdpr has-patch commit needs-refresh
Cc: Focuses:

Description

To match terminology better with the GDPR which is the biggest privacy law soon to be in effect, and which refers to "Right to Erasure"

Attachments (1)

43920.diff​ (5.3 KB ) - added by allendav 8 years ago.
Change remove and its variants to erase in admin facing strings

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Change History (14)

@allendav
8 years ago

Change remove and its variants to erase in admin facing strings

This ticket was mentioned in ​Slack in #gdpr-compliance by allendav. ​View the logs.
8 years ago

#2 @allendav
8 years ago

  • Keywords has-patch added; needs-patch removed

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8 years ago

#4 @postphotos
8 years ago

Confirming in chat: We want to generally use the terms "erase"/"erasure" and this is the right approach forward, @allendav. Here's @idea15's quote from Slack:

Yes - this is a case where the term is very niche to this particular point of law, as opposed to being generic. Also "erasure" helps differentiate from "right to be forgotten", which is the most misinterpreted and misrepresented point of data protection law.

#5 @azaozz
8 years ago

  • Milestone Awaiting Review → 4.9.6

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8 years ago

#7 @desrosj
8 years ago

  • Keywords commit added

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8 years ago

#9 @desrosj
8 years ago

  • Keywords needs-refresh added

#10 @SergeyBiryukov
8 years ago

  • Owner set to SergeyBiryukov
  • Resolution → fixed
  • Status new → closed

In 43175:

Privacy: Use the terms "erase"/"erasure" instead of "remove"/"removal" for personal data.

Props allendav.
Fixes #43920.

#11 @SergeyBiryukov
8 years ago

In 43176:

Privacy: Use the terms "erase"/"erasure" instead of "remove"/"removal" for personal data.

Props allendav.
Merges [43175] to the 4.9 branch.
Fixes #43920.

This ticket was mentioned in ​Slack in #gdpr-compliance by allendav. ​View the logs.
8 years ago

#13 @desrosj
8 years ago

  • Component General → Privacy

Moving to the new Privacy component.

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