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Checking the EU citizenship on a website

A website that I have a user on is requesting my full name, physical address, and a government issued ID to verify that I am a EU citizen just so they can adhere to my request of deleting the account that i haven't used for a long time and won't even use anymore. I was already sending the request from the email address that is associated with the user. Can they really ask for more personal info and an ID?

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Andrei Hanganu Sep 03, 2018

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Usually controllers need to establish the identity of a data subject before answering any requests in order to ensure that they are dealing with the right person. However, asking you to provide a copy of your ID might be excessive especially because the EU GDPR does not apply exclusively to EU citizens.

To learn more about data subject right check our webinar “Data Subject Rights under the EU GDPR” (https://advisera.com/eugdpracademy/webinar/data-subject-rights-under-the-eu-gdpr-free-webinar-on-demand/).

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