A few years back I registered with a recruitment agency. They were useless, never had any jobs to put me forward for but tried to put me forward for things I wasn't actually suitably experienced for. Anyway, I found a job elsewhere and promptly forgot about them.
Recently they emailed me saying something like 'if you want to stay on our records, you need to contact us by X date to confirm. If we don't hear from you then we will delete your details'.
No problem, I wanted them to delete my details so I ignored it.
But instead of deleting my details they are now emailing me regularly saying the same thing - if I reply they will take that as authorisation to keep me on file, and if I ignore they will delete me. But every time the deadline passes they just move the deadline and email me again.
I can't say I'm stressed out or anything, it's no trouble to me to ignore and delete an email. I just find their logic baffling, and I'm sure that repeatedly contacting someone who has indicated that they want to be forgotten must surely not be in the spirit of GDPR.
Before they emailed me I had forgotten they existed. Now they have drawn my attention to the fact that they hold information about me AND they don't adhere to their own policies regarding retaining it. Seems like a strange way to do business 