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by piaste 3008 days ago
This idea smells of 'one weird trick lawyers HATE'.

I'd be very surprised if a court saw nothing wrong with spamming otherwise-legal requests nonstop every month, in exchange for monetary payment by a third party to boot. I imagine it could easily fall under harassment, or abuse of the court, or some other misdemeaner with sufficient leeway to interpretation (which it would be totally appropriate to apply).

Also, consider that the fact that they are GDPR requests isn't really germane to your idea. Surely there already exist some kind of requests that a customer can legally submit to a company and which can be individually burdensome to answer - perhaps specific to a particular sector, say banking, medical, or insurance. Yet I am not aware of anybody trying this particular route to cripple their competitors.

Another thing, say that the company being spammed stops responding to those malicious requests. Nothing is gonna happen unless you actually file a complaint against them for not responding, and you probably aren't going to do that for a few dollars, especially when you know you are acting in very far from good faith.