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Dear Sir or Madam:
I am writing to you in your capacity as data protection officer for your
company. Following recent spam received on this email address,
I am making this request for access to my personal data
pursuant to Article 15 of the General Data Protection Regulation.
I am concerned that your companys information practices may be putting my
personal information at undue risk of exposure or in fact has breached its
obligation to safeguard my personal information.
I prove my identity and this email address property by signing this email with
my GPG key 0xefb74277ece4e222.
If you require further information, please contact me at my address above.
I would like you to be aware at the outset that I expect a reply to my
request within one month, as required per Article 12. Failure to comply will
leave me with no other option but to forward my inquiry with a letter of
complaint to the CNIL (French GDPR regulator).
Please advise as to the following:
1. Please confirm whether or not my personal data is being processed.
If it is, please provide me with the categories of personal data you have
about me in your files and databases.
a. In particular, please tell me what you know about me in your
information systems, whether or not contained in databases, and including
email, documents on your networks, or voice or other media that you may store.
b. Additionally, please advise me in which countries my personal data is
stored, or accessible from. In case you make use of cloud services to store or
process my data, please include the countries in which the servers are located
where my data are or have been (in the past 12 months) stored.
c. Please provide me with a copy of, or access to, my personal data that
you have or are processing.
2. Please provide me with a detailed accounting of the specific uses that
you have made, are making, or will be making of my personal data.
3. Please provide me with a list of all third parties with whom you have (or may
have) shared my personal data.
a. If you cannot identify with certainty the specific third parties to
whom you have disclosed my personal data, please provide a list of third
parties to whom you may have disclosed my personal data.
b. Please also identify which jurisdictions identified in 1(b)
above that these third parties with whom you have or may have shared my
personal data, from which these third parties have stored or can access my
personal data. Please also provide insight in the legal grounds for
transferring my personal data to these jurisdictions. Where you have done so,
or are doing so, on the basis of appropriate safeguards, please provide a
copy.
c. Additionally, I would like to know which safeguards have been put in
place in relation to these third parties that you have identified in relation
to the transfer of my personal data.
4. Please advise how long you store my personal data, and if retention is
based upon the category of personal data, please identify how long each
category is retained.
5. If you are additionally collecting personal data about me from any source
other than me, please provide me with all information about their source, as
referred to in Article 14 of the GDPR.
6. If you are making automated decisions about me, including profiling,
whether or not on the basis of Article 22 of the GDPR, please provide me with
information concerning the basis for the logic in making such automated
decisions, and the significance and consequences of such processing.
7. I would like to know whether or not my personal data was disclosed
inadvertently by your company in the past, or as a result of a security or
privacy breach.
a. If so, please advise as to the following details of each and any such
breach:
i. a general description of what occurred;
ii. the date and time of the breach (or the best
possible estimate);
iii. the date and time the breach was discovered;
iv. the source of the breach (either your own
organization, or a third party to whom you have transferred my personal data);
v. details of my personal data that was disclosed;
vi. your companys assessment of the risk of harm to
myself, as a result of the breach;
vii. a description of the measures taken or that will
be taken to prevent further unauthorized access to my personal data;
viii. contact information so that I can obtain more
information and assistance in relation to the breach, and
ix. information and advice on what I can do to protect
myself against any harms, including identity theft and fraud.
b. If you are not able to state with any certainty whether such an
exposure took place, through the use of appropriate technologies, please
advise what mitigating steps you have taken, such as:
i. Encryption of my personal data;
ii. Data minimization strategies; or,
iii. Anonymization or pseudonymization;
iv. Any other means
8. I would like to know the information policies and standards that you
enforce in relation to the safeguarding of my personal data, such as whether
you comply with to ISO27001 for information security, and more particularly, your
practices in relation to the following:
a. Please inform me whether you have backed up my personal data to
tape,
disk or other media, and where it is stored and how it is secured, including
what steps you have taken to protect my personal data from loss or theft, and
whether this includes encryption.
b. Please also advise whether you have in place any technology which
allows you with reasonable certainty to know whether or not my personal data
has been disclosed, including but not limited to the following:
i. Intrusion detection systems;
ii. Firewall technologies;
iii. Access and identity management technologies;
iv. Database audit and/or security tools; or,
v. Behavioral analysis tools, log analysis tools, or
audit tools;
9. In regards to employees and contractors, please advise as to the
following:
a. What technologies or business procedures do you have to ensure
that
individuals within your organization will be monitored to ensure that they do
not deliberately or inadvertently disclose personal data outside your company,
through email, web-mail or instant messaging, or otherwise.
b. Have you had had any circumstances in which employees or
contractors
have been dismissed, and/or been charged under criminal laws for accessing my
personal data inappropriately, or if you are unable to determine this, the data
of any of your customers, in the past twelve months.
c. Please advise as to what training and awareness measures you have
taken in order to ensure that employees and contractors are accessing and
processing my personal data in conformity with the General Data Protection
Regulation.
Regards,