118 No. 3 of Right to erasure 2021] Data Protection 60. (1) The data subject has the right to erasure of personal data of that data subject as soon as practicable and the data controller shall have the obligation to erase personal data without undue delay where the— (a) personal data is no longer necessary in relation to the purposes for which it was collected or otherwise processed; (b) data subject, or a person holding parental responsibility, where the data subject is a child, withdraws consent and there is no other legal ground for the processing; (c) data subject objects to the processing and there are no overriding legitimate grounds for the processing, or the data subject objects to the processing unless the data controller is otherwise permitted by the provisions of this Act; (d) personal data has been unlawfully processed; or (e) personal data has to be erased for compliance with a legal obligation in the Republic to which the data controller is subject. (2) A data controller shall, where the data controller has made the personal data public, take all reasonable steps to inform a data processor and third party processing that data by virtue of that publication, that the data subject has requested the erasure of any links to, or copy or replication of, that personal data. Right of objection 61. (1) Subject to this Act, a data subject may object, to processing of that data subject’s personal data. (2) A data controller shall not, where a data subject objects to the processing of that data subject’s personal data, process the personal data objected to under subsection (1) unless the data controller is permitted by the provisions of any other written law. (3) A data subject may, where personal data is processed for direct marketing purposes, object to processing of that data subject’s personal data. (4) Where a data subject objects to the processing of personal data for direct marketing purposes, the personal data shall no longer be processed for that purpose but may be processed for any other lawful purpose.