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I actually made a GDPR request to my insurance company. Turns out that not only did they have documents about me before I had ever signed a contract with them,

• donatj 5y ago
  > They had documents about me before I was even born Can you elaborate?
  • Hamuko 5y ago
    Turns out that my parents took on some kind of a life insurance policy in an insurance company that no longer exists in the strict sense but the documents have carried on through fusions and when a couple of decades later I got car insurance, a bunch of old medical records and contracts were linked with my account.
• 77pt77 5y ago
  > they had documents about me before I was even born. This needs some explanation. Also, what's stopping them from just lying?
  • Hamuko 5y ago
    >Also, what's stopping them from just lying? Well, hopefully the prospect of fines if they're caught. I'm hoping that the local data authorities won't be lenient if a company is caught outright lying.