Ask ex-employee / colleague for data removal that relates to company
<p>I am not sure if this is off-topic but I would like to send a kind of formal email to one of my ex-colleagues to ask for data removal that relates to the company I am in still.</p>

<p>I remember that I received a similar email when I was an employee within a company. On my last day I received some kind of mail that asked me to remove all data related to the company, including passwords, repositories etc. I had to answer with yes / no.</p>

<p>Do you guys have any example for this? Or is this a none common approach?</p>

<p>It depends on the company, what your position was in that company and what information did you have access to while working there.</p>

<p>Basically the company have all the rights to the information and if you would share that information with anyone who does not work there, this includes even your close family members, then in most jurisdictions they would be able to sue you for that.</p>

<p>So in areas that there are sensitive information available, that is very common practice.</p>

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