GDPR exports tell a lot about about how a company models their data. Some companies gives near a sql export which shows you their internal schema. Others use ob

GDPR exports tell a lot about about how a company models their data. Some companies gives near a sql export which shows you their internal schema. Others use obvious export formats. None use the same format for much of anything. At privicy.com we are automating GDPR exports for your accounts, and so we study these export files. It’s almost like there is a competition for how to make the data different. Let’s take location data as an example. Latitude and longitude: are they Integers (google), Floats (Facebook), combined into one value as strings (Snapchat)? Any why does uber record location every time you touch the screen? And then there are people formats...