cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/38731156

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Chinese Apps are even worse than US Providers. Most major tech companies have by now implemented some sort of automation tool that allows them to fulfil GDPR access requests on a mass scale, usually via a “download your information” tool. Theoretically, this would make it extremely easy for them to comply with EU law. In reality, however, both TikTok and AliExpress haven’t bothered to give the data subjects access to all of their data as required under Article 15 GDPR. TikTok only provided part of the complainant’s data in an unstructured form that was impossible to understand. AliExpress provided a broken file that could be opened only once. WeChat, on the other hand, just completely ignored the complainant’s request.

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