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If you're allowed to use the smartest engineers and the cleverest algorithms to process as much data about me as possible to create perfect ads, and if that's n

• jacquesm 8y ago
  That depends on what your motivations are. If you are just interested then that's all fine and good, if you have a legitimate issue with a company then too you are in the clear. But if all you want to do is cause work 'just because you can' then you're on a fishing expedition without an actual cause. The claimant in the letter is clearly aware of that and how it would make them look in the eyes of the regulators if they were to forward a complaint hence the 'set up' at the beginning of the letter indicating some kind of faux concern in spite of being a 'customer'. The dissonance there is pretty strong, if I'm a customer of a company in good standing this is not how I would address them.
• cm2012 8y ago
  Facebook and Google can be expected to answer this letter. 99.99% of other companies do not have the smartest engineers et al.
  • mlthoughts2018 8y ago
    But they all told me they only hire the smartest engineers, and that’s why I had to derive 256-ary Judy tree implementations on the whiteboard. Someone is lying!
  • newsbinator 8y ago
    I know it's not black and white at all. But it feels to me that if I'm processing personal data about my users, then it's reasonable for them to ask what it is and where it is. There are overheads that come with doing business. GDPR is going to shake out some of the companies that are competent at using personal data but incompetent at telling people what it is and where it's stored.