Majorities favored the right to allow Americans to have medical data permanently deleted in 2019 % of U.S. adults who thought that all Americans should have the right to have medical data collected by a health care provider permanently deleted by the people or organizations who have that information
Americans widely support the “right to be forgotten,” allowing people to remove personal information about themselves from public online searches or databases. When the Center asked Americans in June 2019 about medical data specifically, about seven-in-ten U.S. adults (69%) said all Americans should have the right to have medical data collected by a health provider permanently deleted by the people or organizations who have that information.
White adults, older Americans and those with higher levels of educational attainment and household incomes were more likely to say all Americans should have the right to have this information permanently deleted. For example, 77% of those with a college education or more said this should be a right for all Americans, compared with smaller shares of those with some college education (70%) or a high school diploma or less (61%).
Majorities favored the right to allow  | Americans to have medical data  | permanently deleted in 2019  | % of U.S. adults who thought that all Americans  | should have the right to have medical data collected  | by a health care provider permanently deleted by the  | people or organizations who have that information  | U.S adults  | 69  | I CONTERTICALLY 56  | White  | 73  | Black  | CONTERTICALLY 56  | Hispanic  | .64  | Ages 18-29  | 59  | 30-49  | 70  | 50-64  | 72  | 65+  | 73  | HS or less  | Some college  | 70  | College+  | 77  | Note: White jand black adults include only non-Hispanics. Hispanics  | are of any race. Those who did not give an answer or who gave fother  | responses are not shown.  | Source: Survey conducted June 3-17, 2019.  | PEW RESEARCH CENTER 