A few days ago I sent a GDPR request to some company to delete my personal data. They said to install their app and send a ticket from the app. The email was sent from the email address to which the account is registered. Is this even legal?

  • My Password Is 1234@lemmy.worldOP
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    9
    ·
    edit-2
    1 year ago

    For some critical services (such as banks, hosting providers, etc.) I use ProtonMail. For the rest of the stuff, I have my own email server hosted at my home set up with a VPN tunnel to OVH (data is kept on a server at my home, but the server is publicly available from the Internet thanks to a cheap VPS from OVH). The most private is what you have full control over.

    With this solution, I have full control over my data.

    • PropaGandalf@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      1 year ago

      Wow that’s pretty advanced. I always thought about hostim my own email server but then people reminded me that I might get blocked or classiefied as spam so it didn’t seem worth the effort. I don’t use email that often anyways.