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> We will provide your information to you as soon as we can. Usually, this should not take more than a month. What benefit does Amazon get out of delaying giving out this information?
Also, anecdotally, I ordered my GDPR info from my car company, when I finally received it (days later) my interest in it was gone.
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…
If enough people start making these requests it makes it costly to store and collect this data = companies might stop collecting it.
interesting how the request takes about a month to process.. it's almost... almost like... they dont really wanna do it but have to
I built a system just like this at another company whose products or services you likely use often or everyday. This pessimistic view assumes the worst about people like me who build these kinds of systems, as if we’re evil or corrupt or somehow doing this to take something from you. In reality, data is stored in disparate systems, under the custodianship of different organizations. Once you can find everything and a…
Making sure it's not an account compromise(also just waiting to give the actual owner a chance to notice), checking with compliance, manually getting all the data that's not been automated yet, getting data out of cold storage, checking over the final data set, etc. Many of which would be sequential
Disclaimer: I work at amazon, but not on this
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.
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.
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> 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.
In Amazons case there are regulatory requirements for keeping around purchase history, tax, etc…
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DownThemAll is a nearly 20 year old browser addon that can bulk-download links on a webpage.
Man, talk about a flashback. I remember DownThemAll. That was the way to scrape images off porn sites, back when porn sites only had images.
I can't do this because amazon does not have my personal information. Amazon has a pseudonym with a dedicated Twilio number that delivers to a private postal box. I burn the pseudonym every few years. Which reminds me ... This is simple because VISA/MC do not validate cardholder name. Everyone thinks they do and most merchants believe that they do but ... they do not. You can use your card with "Mickey Mouse" and it…
Trying this out on my next purchase for sure.