Get companies to erase your personal data – automated CCPA deletion requests
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Since the devs are around this thread: it would be nice to have an option to send requests in bulk.
(And those manual processes are expensive and likely to be automated away to some hackable business logic at some point.)
I suppose this depends on who they're manual and expensive for. Some people will probably automate "respond to all agent-based deletion requests with a request for proof of authorization and direct user verification", because it lets them delete as little as possible.
But actually checking that info if its provided? Yeah, that sounds less likely. And I'll bet a lot of companies will just obey anyone claiming to be the actual user and providing some piece of personal info.
CCPA guidelines say that for deletion requests via an "authorized agent", companies can require the consumer to verify their identity directly with the business, and require the agent to furnish written permission from the consumer. (Unless the authorized agent holds power of attorney. Good luck sorting that case out.)
Practically? Yep.
The burden of work and evidence for refusing requests is pretty high, and most companies probably won't handle it. Companies under GDPR have consistently agreed to delete or even reveal info without reasonable evidence. They generally aren't allowed to gather new info to verify you, either - they specifically can't require official ID if they don't require it as part of their normal business. Probably a decent number will require you to confirm the request via the email they have on file, but if you did the work to plead "no longer have access to that email" they'd probably delete anyway.
The only good news is that password-based accounts are different, and the standard for verification is meant to scale based on the damage of a positive mistake. So you could cause bulk deletions from an email list to hurt a company, or target a person for massive inconvenience, but you probably couldn't get hit someone's most important accounts like file backups or online bill payments.
A really surreal thing, though, is that opt-out-of-sale requests don't even require verification, and they prohibit businesses from asking you to opt back in for a long time. They can only be refused with a "reasonable and documented" belief that the request is fraudulent. What's more, a deletion request that can't be verified is supposed to be treated as a valid opt-out request!
So for targeting a consumer, maybe. But I absolutely expect we'll see someone target a company by taking a multi-million-record email breach and sending deletion/opt-out requests for all of them.
I wish it came with a little blurb on /data-brokers as to what a Company does or how they typically use data.
I know I probably 'want' e.g. Experian to have my data but I'd remove any company that is purely ads based for example.
This form is filled with dark patterns, including ones that are outright illegal, I believe. You cannot exclude your phone number under GDPR unless your country code is UK (+44).
Can you help with this case or am I and others just stuck with the mistake of using them?
As far as I can tell, their use case, in general, isn't covered by the rights to erasure[1]
1. https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-data-protectio...
Can you explain your thinking about why you believe that? I would have interpreted the guidelines in the opposite way.
Telegram does permit individual manual deletion of group conversation messages for all parties, and bulk deletion of 1-1 conversation messages for everyone, just not the group chats. It's incredibly inconsistent even by their own standards.
Reading through the reasons in the "When does the right to erasure apply?" on the link I posted it is not obvious if any of the listed ones apply.
As for the syncing - if they are fully encrypting everything but you have the keys on those devices and they dont have them, what they have is not considered usable by them data. I am not entirely sure how Telegram operate anymore though - if there is no syncing at all, then yes they likely store it in an accessible by them way.
Of all the companies that might be collecting my info via some dark sorcery...theyre not on my worry list