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?
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.
Fuck them and bless u lol
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.
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.
Why not? That’s so weird…
Think of the poor corporation! If they get punished for their illegal buisness practices, it’ll hurt the economy and people will be less inclined to start a small buisness. Didn’t you study piss down economics?
Genuine question: Aren’t you supposed to say “this is not legal advice?” if you identify yourself as a lawyer but you’re not their legal council? Or am I mistaken?
Look it is the internet, you can rest assured if they say they are a lawyer, then there is no doubt ;)
And I’m totally not a dog. Woof!
I TOO AM A CANINE UNIT. I LIKE EXECUTING CANINE BEHAVIOURAL PROCESSES SUCH AS RETRIEVING ITEMS FOR MY DESIGNATED HUMAN OWNING UNIT. WOOF.
Is everything okay?
I AM OPERATING WITHIN NORMAL PARAMETERS.
Simply ask for the official company name, registration number and country as well as the prereree means of communication that they would like your local data authorities to contact them on.
Also make a 1 star review, stating that you are in talks with your local gdpr authorities about their way of handling privacy.
This worked for me last time a company asked me to download an app to delete my account
prereree -> preferred?
no
Gmail. How ironic
Just because you content to a data stark foes not mean you consent to all data sharks.
