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“Has No Friends”: Amazon Is Keeping Amazingly Detailed Records on Its Customers and They Are Downright Insulting: Here's how to check yours. (futurism.com)
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[–] 15 points 23 hours ago* (3 children)

I selected the request to get advertisement related. Theb they sent a freaking email with a confirmation link. I decided to go through.

After selecting that, they say something like, "it should be completed in a month, but it can take more time because of high request volumes."

Yeah a database query is going to take a month.

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  • [–] 4 points 19 hours ago

    Facebook took about 2 months back then for me, but this was shortly after the GDPR was enacted.

    Issue is probably not the database query, but that it is a bunch of databases, and that they are not willing to assign more than a skeleton crew to these things, because they only cost them money and they wouldn't do it if it were possible to deny it at all.

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  • [–] 2 points 17 hours ago

    It took reddit a month (to the day IIRC) to send me my data as well (like everything I'd ever written on the site) when I requested all my info just before I left. Must be some law that says a month in it somewhere.

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  • [–] 4 points 23 hours ago

    I've done data requests to Google to get all my YouTube and Google photos data in the past. Both took less than a few days, despite the latter covering over 100GB of data.

    The former I did so I could get all my subscriptions into a third party client, the latter was so I could easily get all my photos with their metadata into an alternative hosting platform. These data request tools can be useful.

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