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Shitty Life Pro Tip: If you can't easily delete an account, try a GDPR Data Request! (lemmy.world)

submitted 12 hours ago by TheTwelveYearOld@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] M33@lemmy.sdf.org 73 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

It’s easier to pretend your data were deleted than collecting part of your data and sending them back to you. They almost every time don’t know how much, where, why they have so much data. They certainly have no way to collect them, only hand made work, so let’s have a little misunderstanding and hope it works.

Now that you’ve been deleted, wait until you receive the next text or email marketing campaign ;)

— I may or may not be working next door to a data protection officer.

[edit: replaced "datas" by "data"]

[–] shneancy@lemmy.world 29 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

data is already a plural word friend! "datas" is confusing to read

[–] RandomVideos@programming.dev 1 points 1 hour ago

Is data a plural word? I thought it was a word without plural form

If data is plural, does that mean that "the data was stolen" is wrong and "the data were stolen" is right?

[–] M33@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 4 hours ago

Noted, not native english here ;)

[–] BlueBockser@programming.dev 21 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

What am I supposed to do with those informations?

[–] rutrum@lm.paradisus.day 7 points 6 hours ago

Start using datum for singular...which is even weirder than datas imo.

[–] Czele@lemmy.world 11 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Write them on sheets of papers

[–] M33@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 4 hours ago

And then invoke GDPR, ask for a printed copy

[–] 14th_cylon@lemm.ee 37 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

meanwhile at the fuck off department, as a reply to "delete everything"

[–] srestegosaurio@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Is that even GDPR compliant?

[–] 14th_cylon@lemm.ee 4 points 4 hours ago

it is not. we exchanged 7 emails and they basically laughed at my face.