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?

  • account abandonedOP
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    201 year ago

    That’s really not cool that you’re upfront about your assumptions. I’m moving from Gmail to another mail provider and, in the process, deleting accounts I don’t use. Please don’t assume in advance something you have no idea about.

    • PropaGandalf
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      51 year ago

      I was in the same situation as you a year ago. Deleted my Google and Microsoft accounts. Would you mind sharing what new services you have settled with?

      • account abandonedOP
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        1 year ago

        For some critical services (such as banks, hosting providers, etc.) I use ProtonMail. For the rest of the stuff, I have my own email server hosted at my home set up with a VPN tunnel to OVH (data is kept on a server at my home, but the server is publicly available from the Internet thanks to a cheap VPS from OVH). The most private is what you have full control over.

        With this solution, I have full control over my data.

        • PropaGandalf
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          21 year ago

          Wow that’s pretty advanced. I always thought about hostim my own email server but then people reminded me that I might get blocked or classiefied as spam so it didn’t seem worth the effort. I don’t use email that often anyways.