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EU adviser: church leavers may demand erasure of baptismal records
Original: Church leavers could claim a right to erase baptismal data, EU adviser says
A European Union adviser has said people who leave a church could invoke a right to have their baptismal data erased, raising questions over how data protection law applies to records held by religious institutions. The opinion touches on the tension between GDPR-style privacy rights and churches' historical registers, and is drawing attention across Europe where formal church resignations have been rising.
Why now: The opinion highlights growing friction between EU data protection rights and religious institutions' record-keeping as church resignations rise.
European UnionEuropean Data Protection SupervisorCatholic Church
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- Church leavers could claim a right to erase baptismal data, EU adviser says · courthousenews.com
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