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by zephyreon 90 days ago
An interesting hearing it from that perspective. I had not considered that this could be used across all of the systems they have in place.

To add to this, I did a quick search on archive.org and it seems like they’ve had this site in place since 2006, albeit in different variations. Perhaps that is why they have a “global” opt-out across all of their marketing databases? Something that has just always been in place.

https://web.archive.org/web/20061103202329/https://gmcontact...

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I mean, how many companies offer to look up your mailing address and remove you from their junk mail?

I suspect in practice this search is not going to be perfect. There are so many variations that could exist on an address.

That doesn't even begin to deal with potential "ghost" sources. A database backup. An integration with a product database, etc.

I would honestly not be surprised if there wasn't a human reviewer somewhere over these requests. (At our company, all GDPR requests are STILL manually handled).