A few days ago I sent a GDPR request to some company to delete my personal data. They said to install their app and send a ticket from the app. The email was sent from the email address to which the account is registered. Is this even legal?

  • _TheNardDog_@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    No, it’s not at all legal for the company to do this. Reply and remind them they have one calendar month to comply from the date of your original request, otherwise you will make a complaint to which ever information regulator is correct for the juridiction they’re operating in.

    I’m a lawyer specialising in Data Privacy, reply here if you need more help on this one.

    Also feel free to name the company.

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      1 year ago

      For now, I do not want to announce the name of this company publicly.

      If they don’t want to solve it amicably, then I will do so.

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        1 year ago

        They already said they don’t want to.

        They asked you to install the app on purpose, in hopes that you’ll decide it’s too much hassle and decide not to delete the account.

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          1 year ago

          How do you know this?

          My first thought was “they probably want to ensure they are who they say they are and so want an authenticated request” - while that’s against GDPR, not everyone is as educated as they should be, and not every mistake is a nefarious activity.

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            1 year ago

            There’s no reason an app should be more trustworthy than the email.
            It’s pretty standard for scummy companies to make the process as annoying as possible.

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    1 year ago

    Cool clickbait. By censoring the company you are complaining about you are removing any possibility of confirming the story. Why would you do this? you are supposedly mad about the company and thus airing a public grievance, yet what could is a public grievance if no one know the target of your ire? Well it’s useless, so why would you post this? For internet points? Maybe go back to reddit.