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Re:China’s New Tool for Social Control: A Credit Rating for ... by mlok on Tuesday November 29, 2016 @12:56AM (#13061170)
In France, the law "Informatique et Liberte" from the 6th of January 1978 allows anyone to access datas stored about them and have them corrected or removed from any database.

https://www.cnil.fr/en/rights-and-obligations

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Re:China’s New Tool for Social Control: A Credit Rating for ... by Thimothy on Tuesday November 29, 2016 @06:16AM (#13062334)
Every western European country has one of those nowadays. Though I never heard about anyone trying to exercise that kind of right, and I wonder if there is any way to verify that your data has actually been removed, or just a NO_SEND_MAIL flag has been set.
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