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To protect your privacy, we will take steps to verify your identity before fulfilling your request, such as by requiring you to submit your request via your account.
When you use them, we'll validate your request by verifying your identity (for example, by confirming that you're signed in to your Google Account).
we may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access your Personal Data (or to exercise any of your other rights). This is a security measure to ensure that Personal Data is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it.
"We may first need to verify who you are before we can respond to your request. If permitted or required under privacy laws, we may ask you to provide us with information necessary to reasonably verify your identity...Excerpt from PayPal's Privacy Statement
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The clause states: “We may first need to verify who you are before we can respond to your request. If permitted or required under privacy laws, we may ask you to provide us with information necessary to reasonably verify your identity...”
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