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The Right to be Forgotten (RTBF) was first established as the result of the ruling of Google Spain SL, Google Inc. v AEPD, Mario Costeja Gonz\'alez, and was later included as the Right to Erasure under the General Data Protection Regulation…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Dawen Zhang , Pamela Finckenberg-Broman , Thong Hoang , Shidong Pan , Zhenchang Xing , Mark Staples , Xiwei Xu

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

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…

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

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

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

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

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

Document indexing is a key component for efficient information retrieval (IR). After preprocessing steps such as stemming and stop-word removal, document indexes usually store term-frequencies (tf). Along with tf (that only reflects the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-04-29 Jibril Frej , Phillipe Mulhem , Didier Schwab , Jean-Pierre Chevallet

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

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

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

Document understanding models have recently demonstrated remarkable performance by leveraging extensive collections of user documents. However, since documents often contain large amounts of personal data, their usage can pose a threat to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Lei Kang , Mohamed Ali Souibgui , Fei Yang , Lluis Gomez , Ernest Valveny , Dimosthenis Karatzas

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

Information retrieval (IR) is a user approach to obtain relevant information which meets needs with the help of a IR system (IRS). However, the IRS shows certain differences between user relevance and system relevance. These gaps are…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2009-10-27 Azza Harbaoui , Malek Ghenima , Sahbi Sidhom

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

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

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

Search engines are the prevalently used tools to collect information about individuals on the Internet. Search results typically comprise a variety of sources that contain personal information -- either intentionally released by the person…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-06-22 Milivoj Simeonovski , Fabian Bendun , Muhammad Rizwan Asghar , Michael Backes , Ninja Marnau , Peter Druschel
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