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A communication between two entities who are not friends is not "friendly". This is clearly a formal request of a type that is even regulated by a law. You're a
by jhgb 5y ago
A communication between two entities who are not friends is not "friendly". This is clearly a formal request of a type that is even regulated by a law. You're almost certainly not asking your neighbor about something like this. You're almost certainly asking someone you've never met in your life. Not sure what about it needs to be "friendly" any more that asking a government bureau using some formalized process (like filling out a form) needs to be "friendly".
- kstrauser 5y agoAnd yet, it usually is. I've gotten requests from people asking me to delete their account, sent from the email address they used to register it, along the lines of: "Hi, I've forgotten my password, but I don't really use my account anyway. Could you delete it for me?" And of course I comply, because I want to be helpful. They asked nicely; I replied nicely. It's a pleasant and productive interaction from all involved. This is the social norm here.
- jhgb 5y agoBut the example you outlined is not regulated by any law as a formal procedure. That's an ad-hoc request. Of course it could also be phrased as an GDPR erasure request, but I bet you'd definitely expect that to be more formal and more specific. After all, that would be a (formally) legal request, and not just something you may decide to do or not to do depending on how you slept last night.