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In the digital age, the challenge of forgetfulness has emerged as a significant concern, particularly regarding the management of personal data and its accessibility online. The right to be forgotten (RTBF) allows individuals to request the…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-01-08 Salvatore Vilella , Giancarlo Ruffo

Since the rapid expansion of large language models (LLMs), people have begun to rely on them for information retrieval. While traditional search engines display ranked lists of sources shaped by search engine optimization (SEO),…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Alex Zhavoronkov , Dominika Wilczok , Roman Yampolskiy

Right to be Forgotten (RTBF) in one of the oldest and prominent of the legal data rights. While its legal intention is straight forward (for example, the GDPR describes it in just 417 words), the computing community has found it challenging…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Chen Sun , Nikolas Guggenberger , Supreeth Shastri

Large Language Models (LLMs) can memorize and reveal personal information, raising concerns regarding compliance with the EU's GDPR, particularly the Right to Be Forgotten (RTBF). Existing machine unlearning methods assume the data to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Dimitri Staufer

The right of an individual to request the deletion of their personal data by an entity that might be storing it -- referred to as the right to be forgotten -- has been explicitly recognized, legislated, and exercised in several…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-02-26 Sanjam Garg , Shafi Goldwasser , Prashant Nalini Vasudevan

With the passage of the Right to Be Forgotten (RTBF) regulations and the scaling up of language model training datasets, research on model unlearning in large language models (LLMs) has become more crucial. Before the era of LLMs, machine…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Bichen Wang , Yuzhe Zi , Yixin Sun , Yanyan Zhao , Bing Qin

In recent years, the notion of ``the right to be forgotten" (RTBF) has become a crucial aspect of data privacy for digital trust and AI safety, requiring the provision of mechanisms that support the removal of personal data of individuals…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Ziyao Liu , Yu Jiang , Jiyuan Shen , Minyi Peng , Kwok-Yan Lam , Xingliang Yuan , Xiaoning Liu

The right to privacy, enshrined in various human rights declarations, faces new challenges in the age of artificial intelligence (AI). This paper explores the concept of the Right to be Forgotten (RTBF) within AI systems, contrasting it…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Rickard Brännvall , Laurynas Adomaitis , Olof Görnerup , Anass Sedrati

The European General Data Protection Regulation asserts data subjects' right to be forgotten, i.e., their right to request that all their personal data be deleted from an organizations' data stores. However, fulfilling such requests in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-10-31 Abigail Goldsteen , Tomer Douek , Yaniv Cohen , Igor Gokhman , Ofir Keren-Ackerman , Gadi Katsovich , Grisha Weintraub , Doron Ben-Ari

Recent privacy regulations (e.g., GDPR) grant data subjects the `Right to Be Forgotten' (RTBF) and mandate companies to fulfill data erasure requests from data subjects. However, companies encounter great challenges in complying with the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Yuncong Yang , Xiao Han , Yidong Chai , Reza Ebrahimi , Rouzbeh Behnia , Balaji Padmanabhan

The Right to Explanation and the Right to be Forgotten are two important principles outlined to regulate algorithmic decision making and data usage in real-world applications. While the right to explanation allows individuals to request an…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-02-13 Satyapriya Krishna , Jiaqi Ma , Himabindu Lakkaraju

The right to be forgotten (RTBF) is motivated by the desire of people not to be perpetually disadvantaged by their past deeds. For this, data deletion needs to be deep and permanent, and should be removed from machine learning models.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Dawen Zhang , Shidong Pan , Thong Hoang , Zhenchang Xing , Mark Staples , Xiwei Xu , Lina Yao , Qinghua Lu , Liming Zhu

Privacy concerns in machine learning are heightened by regulations such as the GDPR, which enforces the "right to be forgotten" (RTBF), driving the emergence of machine unlearning as a critical research field. Vertical Federated Learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Linian Wang , Leye Wang

As we keep rapidly advancing toward an era where artificial intelligence is a constant and normative experience for most of us, we must also be aware of what this vision and this progress entail. By first approximating neural connections…

General Literature · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Meem Arafat Manab

The right to be forgotten (RTBF) seeks to safeguard individuals from the enduring effects of their historical actions by implementing machine-learning techniques. These techniques facilitate the deletion of previously acquired knowledge…

As machine learning (ML) models are increasingly being deployed in high-stakes applications, policymakers have suggested tighter data protection regulations (e.g., GDPR, CCPA). One key principle is the "right to be forgotten" which gives…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Martin Pawelczyk , Tobias Leemann , Asia Biega , Gjergji Kasneci

The Right to be Forgotten is a core principle outlined by regulatory frameworks such as the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). This principle allows individuals to request that their personal data be deleted from deployed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-19 Alex Oesterling , Jiaqi Ma , Flavio P. Calmon , Hima Lakkaraju

Federated Learning (FL) has evolved as a powerful tool for collaborative model training across multiple entities, ensuring data privacy in sensitive sectors such as healthcare and finance. However, the introduction of the Right to Be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Kahou Tam , Kewei Xu , Li Li , Huazhu Fu

The objective of digital forgetting is, given a model with undesirable knowledge or behavior, obtain a new model where the detected issues are no longer present. The motivations for forgetting include privacy protection, copyright…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Alberto Blanco-Justicia , Najeeb Jebreel , Benet Manzanares , David Sánchez , Josep Domingo-Ferrer , Guillem Collell , Kuan Eeik Tan

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in politically sensitive environments, where memorisation of personal data or confidential content raises regulatory concerns under frameworks such as the GDPR and its Right to be…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Esen Kurt , Haithem Afli
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