Table of Contents

1: Introduction
Part I - The Right to Erasure in EU Data Protection Law
2: Foundations of Data Protection Law
3: Scope of the Right to Erasure
4: Conditions of the Right to Erasure
Part II - Balancing & Data Protection
5: Balancing in the GDPR
6: Balancing Scenarios
7: Open Questions on Balancing in the GDPR
Part III - Effectiveness
8: Making the Right to Erasure Work in Practice
9: Summary and Conclusion

About the Author

Jef Ausloos is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Amsterdam's Institute for Information law (IViR) and an affiliated researcher at the KU Leuven's Centre for IT & IP Law.

Jef holds degrees in law from the Universities of Namur, Leuven and Hong Kong and has worked as an International Fellow at the Center for Democracy & Technology and the Electronic Frontier Foundation. His research centres around data-driven power asymmetries and the normative underpinnings of individual control, empowerment and autonomy in modern-day, largely privatised information ecosystems.

His PhD-thesis (2018), which formed the basis of this book, received two prestigious awards: the Council of Europe's Stefano Rodotà award and the International Institute of Human Rights' Rene Cassin Prize.