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Since gdpr, businesses are "required" to make your data available to you for transfer in a machine-readable format and you could argue that pdf is not exactly m
by mqus 7y ago
Since gdpr, businesses are "required" to make your data available to you for transfer in a machine-readable format and you could argue that pdf is not exactly machine-readable in the sense of the law. Practically I have seen cases where you do get csv or something similar, but especially smaller firms will probably give you word documents, excel files or pdfs.
- 72deluxe 7y agoInteresting! Halifax Bank in the UK changed their generation library for PDFs the other year such that new statements rendered incorrectly on the Mac. Old statements were fine. New ones were garbage text. Chrome displayed them fine, Preview on Mac did not. Trying to communicate this to them was like talking to a tree, or an alien, or a room of catatonic individuals. Thankfully I think they've fixed it now.