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by vonmoltke 2581 days ago
> Once you've complied once, you should be able to comply for everyone else automatically.

How do you automatically comply with a free-form letter sent via e-mail or, even worse, snail mail? You need one or more humans in the loop to identify these requests, even if it is just to send a canned response back.
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theamk 2581 days ago
Yes, but the balance of power is in the favor of the company.

You can have thousands of people send GDPR requests. Each person will take at least half an hour to print, compose, wrap and send letter. And someone at the company will take under a minute to reply to each one, because all they'd need to do is a quick scan of the letter, then send a pre-printed response.

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vonmoltke 2580 days ago
> Each person will take at least half an hour to print, compose, wrap and send letter.

The point of this site is that there is no composition. Just print, address, and send if you want to snail mail. If that takes you half an hour, I don't know what to tell you.

> And someone at the company will take under a minute to reply to each one, because all they'd need to do is a quick scan of the letter, then send a pre-printed response.

Under a minute to 1) identify the letter and the sender; 2) pull the correct pre-printed response; 3) address and send the response? How does your hypothetical employee do this so much faster than your hypothetical private citizen?

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TomMarius 2581 days ago
I don't even have a mailbox and now I need to have one, and actually read the mail - which I'm unable to even reach as I'm often thousands of kilometers far. Will you do it for me? I just wanted to have comments on my site...

Not all websites are ran by huge companies. Actually, most are not.

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