I filed a GDPR deletion request with Twitter a couple of weeks ago. It was quite a challenge to find a way to contact Twitter (for anyone who wants to you can do so via: https://secure.ethicspoint.com/domain/en/default_reporter.asp) - but I finally succeded. I did not simply wanted to deactivate my account I want all of my data to be deleted as is my right through the GDPR.
A couple of weeks later I received message saying that my account had been deactivated and that I should not log in as this my halt the deletion. Today (one and half months later) I tried logging into Twitter and found out that my login email is still registered).
I filed a new complained but wanted to know if anybody here has had their data successfully deleted? Twitter makes it deliberately hard to do so and this might be a violation of the GDPR.
GPA is what my autocorrect turns DPA into if I don’t watch it carefully. I’ve edited my comment to fix it.
DPA stands for Data Protection Authority, it’s the government institution that’s tasked with maintaining GDPR compliance. Every EU country and the UK has one, and they’re the first place you should take your privacy complaints when the companies themselves don’t solve your problem for you.