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by rstephenson2 3016 days ago
If you work with data security departments at large companies, you get these types of questionnaires all the time already. And every single question has been answered a dozen times before, but each new request's questions have subtle nuances such that it's impossible to build up a FAQ comprehensive enough that a non-technical person could copy-and-paste answers in a legally safe way. You'd think it would be possible, it just isn't.

The part that's not clear about the GDPR is whether you're obligated to manually answer any data-related question a user has, or if you can just post a comprehensive FAQ + data export / account deletion tool, and auto-respond to GDPR requests with links to those.