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  • What data controller is that?

    Very few of them have a valid ground to process your birh date. Do they need it to provide you the service? No? Then they fail the data minimization requirement.

    and refusing access right on the ground of the birth day, which they should not have in the first place, is the cherry on the cake.

    Send them a letter to tell thel that you are ready to submit a complaint to your regulator (or the lead regulatior), but that you are ready to compromize to save hassle to everybody. A few thousands are always welcome.

    But again, this is valid only if the controller have no ground to process birth date. If it provide adult stuff, or legal benefits, etc. it’s a different story.






  • Just to clarify, I’m self-hosting. I’m using neither Proton nor Dropbox.

    However, I’m a privacy pro, and I read Privacy Policies on a daily basis (ok… weekly basis).

    The US companies recently moved to disclose ALL the providers they are using (including for controller activities) where European companies still hide this information (and disclose only the providers used to deliver the service). For a very concrete example, Salesforces is mentionned by Dropbox where Proton is silent about the crm they use.

    On this specific aspect, the USA are ahead of EU.

    That’s all I meant.

    If you want to read it as “give your data to the USA”, feel free, but that’s not what I said.



  • Encryption will not protect your privacy in the specific case of Dropbox.

    They look into your activity, not files.

    And that’s pretty much standard for any kind of commercial SaaS, just because of security concerns.

    Also, they are quite transparent about the provider they are using for internal activities (Stripe, etc.). Companies in EU will typically not disclose such information. For example, Dropbox disclose the use of AWS (for hosting the infra & code, I guess), whereas Proton does not disclose any hosting company.