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Manage personal data associated with Azure Resource Manager

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To avoid exposing sensitive information, delete any personal information you may have provided in deployments, resource groups, or tags. Azure Resource Manager provides operations that let you manage personal data you may have provided in deployments, resource groups, or tags.

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This article provides steps about how to delete personal data from the device or service and can be used to support your obligations under the GDPR. For general information about GDPR, see the GDPR section of the Microsoft Trust Center and the GDPR section of the Service Trust portal.

Delete personal data in deployment history

For deployments, Resource Manager retains parameter values and status messages in the deployment history. These values persist until you delete the deployment from the history. To see if you have provided personal data in these values, list the deployments. If you find personal data, delete the deployments from the history.

To list deployments in the history, use:

To delete deployments from the history, use:

Delete personal data in resource group names

The name of the resource group persists until you delete the resource group. To see if you have provided personal data in the names, list the resource groups. If you find personal data, move the resources to a new resource group, and delete the resource group with personal data in the name.

To list resource groups, use:

To delete resource groups, use:

Delete personal data in tags

Tags names and values persist until you delete or modify the tag. To see if you have provided personal data in the tags, list the tags. If you find personal data, delete the tags.

To list tags, use:

To delete tags, use:

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