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Re: Request your personal information

#11
When I requested this back in August, it took 5 days to get the results.

You get a long list of links that each triggers a download. It's a bit annoying to bulk download by clicking each link one by one, so I made a Browserflow flow that clicks all the links and downloads everything automatically: https://browserflow.app/shared/61e979ed-47f4-4c94-b5a5-3ade0...

Re: Request your personal information

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post #10

Please notice, at all companies (I don't know about AWS) that I have worked for each GDPR request eats up a few man-days of work internally. Some companies getting hit a lot by GDPR have likely automated it, but even a big company (that I know of) with 100k+ private customers (that all have the right) only receives a few requests a quarter, usually by angry customers.. This AWS thingy might not be GDPR, but it might…

> please consider if you wanna to be a resource hog..

Perhaps the corporations could also consider whether they want to be an information hog in the first place and slurp up people's data.

You know what the easiest way to fulfill a data request is? To not have any data to give.

Re: Request your personal information

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post #10

Please notice, at all companies (I don't know about AWS) that I have worked for each GDPR request eats up a few man-days of work internally. Some companies getting hit a lot by GDPR have likely automated it, but even a big company (that I know of) with 100k+ private customers (that all have the right) only receives a few requests a quarter, usually by angry customers.. This AWS thingy might not be GDPR, but it might…

Please don’t feel guilty asking what information a company like Amazon knows about you. They have the engineering, human and computing resources to make this as scalable as it needs to be. If anything you’ll be creating more jobs for people who need it. I say this as a stock holder and someone who believes this information should be available.

[edit: very small amount of stock but relevant I suppose]

Re: Request your personal information

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> We’ve received and are processing your request to access your personal data. We will provide your information to you as soon as we can. Usually, this should not take more than a month. In exceptional cases, for example if a request is more complex or if we are processing a high volume of requests, it might take longer, but if so we will notify you that there will be a delay. I wonder what the formats are. Also, is…

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Re: Request your personal information

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post #10

Please notice, at all companies (I don't know about AWS) that I have worked for each GDPR request eats up a few man-days of work internally. Some companies getting hit a lot by GDPR have likely automated it, but even a big company (that I know of) with 100k+ private customers (that all have the right) only receives a few requests a quarter, usually by angry customers.. This AWS thingy might not be GDPR, but it might…

I would encourage people to do so for the exact reason. Personal data should be managed in a way that such requests can be processed. It is OK if it hurts a bit. It is the idea of the GDPR that companies establish scalable processes that allow things like requests, migration and deletion. The only thing you need to do is to verify that to the best of your knowledge it is complete. What should not happen is that companies process those requests partially to save time.

Re: Request your personal information

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post #10

Please notice, at all companies (I don't know about AWS) that I have worked for each GDPR request eats up a few man-days of work internally. Some companies getting hit a lot by GDPR have likely automated it, but even a big company (that I know of) with 100k+ private customers (that all have the right) only receives a few requests a quarter, usually by angry customers.. This AWS thingy might not be GDPR, but it might…

> Just because it is free and your right, please consider if you wanna to be a resource hog..

Oh poor Amazon and Bezos... They must be struggling on the resources. Please think twice about exercising your legal right, as it might affect the profit margins of a monopolistic megacorp.

Re: Request your personal information

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"We’ve received and are processing your request to access your personal data. We will provide your information to you as soon as we can.

Usually, this should not take more than a *month*.

In exceptional cases, for example if a request is more complex or if we are processing a high volume of requests, it might take longer, but if so we will notify you that there will be a delay."

Re: Request your personal information

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post #10

Please notice, at all companies (I don't know about AWS) that I have worked for each GDPR request eats up a few man-days of work internally. Some companies getting hit a lot by GDPR have likely automated it, but even a big company (that I know of) with 100k+ private customers (that all have the right) only receives a few requests a quarter, usually by angry customers.. This AWS thingy might not be GDPR, but it might…

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Re: Request your personal information

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post #10

Please notice, at all companies (I don't know about AWS) that I have worked for each GDPR request eats up a few man-days of work internally. Some companies getting hit a lot by GDPR have likely automated it, but even a big company (that I know of) with 100k+ private customers (that all have the right) only receives a few requests a quarter, usually by angry customers.. This AWS thingy might not be GDPR, but it might…

It doesn't cost much when you allow your customers to do this from the start.

And it helps QA to be able to see raw data.

Re: Request your personal information

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post #11

When I requested this back in August, it took 5 days to get the results. You get a long list of links that each triggers a download. It's a bit annoying to bulk download by clicking each link one by one, so I made a Browserflow flow that clicks all the links and downloads everything automatically: https://browserflow.app/shared/61e979ed-47f4-4c94-b5a5-3ade0...

DownThemAll is a nearly 20 year old browser addon that can bulk-download links on a webpage.
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