People can have inaccurate personal data about them corrected, and incomplete data completed, without undue delay.
Official text & source
Article 16 of the General Data Protection Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2016/679). Read the full, authoritative text on EUR-Lex.
Official text
Verbatim text of Article 16 of the General Data Protection Regulation — Regulation (EU) 2016/679.
1 The data subject shall have the right to obtain from the controller without undue delay the rectification of inaccurate personal data concerning him or her. 2 Taking into account the purposes of the processing, the data subject shall have the right to have incomplete personal data completed, including by means of providing a supplementary statement.
Source: Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (OJ L 119, 4.5.2016, p. 1). Official text reproduced from EUR-Lex — © European Union. Only European Union legislation published in the Official Journal is deemed authentic.
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