IamOut: Exercise your GDPR rights with minimum effort

Our first side-hustle. GDPR requires companies to answer authenticated privacy inquiries within 30 days. For many websites, proving control of the user’s email account is sufficient to authenticate, e.g. for a password reset. GDPR inquiries sent from this address can thus hardly be considered as unauthenticated. With IamOut, we provided a generator for legally correct inquiry emails and followed up with free (for the user) legal support. User experience Choose a company from a list and provide the email address they signed-up with at that company Choose the desired action: retrieve information about stored data or delete all data or revoke permission to use the data for marketing purposes Receive a mailto-link by email, i.e., a link that generates the appropriate email to the service provider within the user’s email program Optionally request the system to remind them with another email, after the legal deadline for a reply by the company has expired ...

May 10, 2020 · 2 min · 223 words