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Has anyone here made a request for their information under the GDPR laws? I'm curious about what they received back. I'm specifically curious regarding the FAAN
by ajxs 7y ago
Has anyone here made a request for their information under the GDPR laws? I'm curious about what they received back.
I'm specifically curious regarding the FAANG companies, and what kind of responses people have received from companies which so directly profit from customer data. Forgive any naïveté regarding the implementation of the laws if they have a built-in mechanism to defeat this, but I'd imagine that the companies would make the entire process as arbitrarily difficult as they legally could.
Also, as a non-EU resident, do I have any ability to make such a request? I suppose the answer is 'no' from a strictly legal standpoint, but is it possible in practice? Or will the company require a comprehensive verification process that precludes such illegitimate requests.
- ygra 7y agoThere were a few people that did this with Facebook years ago in Germany (GDPR is merely the EU-level legislature, some parts of it have existed in member state law for a while). The result basically was that you got a DVD with a lot of PDFs on it, if I remember correctly. Including all things you once uploaded and later deleted, which were apparently kept.
- number6 7y agoI would advice companies to also answer requests from non-EU residents. There is no discrimination between EU citizens and non-EU citizens in the Articles.
- ajxs 7y agoThank you for pointing that out. I'll have a look for myself and based on what I see I might send request in anyway. At very least I'll be able to definitively conclude what the response of these companies will be.