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[–] jagermo@feddit.org 62 points 2 weeks ago (14 children)

"Yeah, hi, I have a gdpr request, all the data you have on me, delete that."

[–] flandish@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

does anyone truly believe they respect those delete requests?

[–] mortn@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 weeks ago

Not the US-based companies, no. But occasionally they get some interesting fines when breaching GDPR, and that does seem to cause some adherence. I'm just happy to live in EU.

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