I just logged in and checked my reddit account, and all my deleted posts have come back.

  • Alkalyon@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    I have already sent a GDPR request to Reddit and they refuse to comply.

    I asked them to delete everything they have about me, including my account and they told me that I need to login into reddit and ask it from there which:

    1. I don’t have to since GDPR says that I can even do it verbally and I don’t even have to write to a specific email, I can just let any employee of that company that I want this and they should honor it.
    2. They straight up don’t even have the option to delete your data there, since I requested for the complete erasure of my data as that is also in my rights.

    Reddit literally refuses to comply with GDPR rules and tonight after work I am going to lodge a formal complain about GDPR violations as I do have proof of this in my emails.

    Fuck Reddit I hope it crashes and burns.

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    1 year ago

    They’re really scraping the barrel now.

    But the main thing we can do is move quality content here.

  • Beardliest@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Holy shit! They restored my comments that I deleted the other day. What a crock of shit. Fuck u/spez.

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    1 year ago

    Really? How does that play with jurisdictions that have right to right to be forgotten laws? Seems like a pretty risky play for them to restore deleted posts that were explicitly deleted by its author.

    • AFK BRB Chocolate@lemmy.world
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      I don’t think deleting your account impacts your content there in any way. I’ve seen lots of posts in the past from accounts that were deleted after posting.

  • AFK BRB Chocolate@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    In another thread, someone mentioned that the scripts that delete comments don’t work if the sub is private, so it could be that people are thinking their content was deleted, but the deletion didn’t actually happen.

    I haven’t done it, so I can’t validate that.

  • Drinkoffee@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    WTF!!! Thx for raising awareness. This is crossing a line.
    I guess next step would be not to delete posts but to edit them.

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      Another user said they restore edited content too. They blanket restore anyone’s content which looks like it’s deleted by a script.

      I can’t go on and manually delete twelve years of comments, I don’t think anyone can.

      This will only be resolved if enough people take them to court and reddit is forced to add a complete data deletion option for all users.

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        That’s low. I wouldn’t put it past them, but I want to see proof before commenting on this.

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    Copying my comment from another thread below. I have since realised that Reddit does have to be GDPR compliant so it must be applicable, but does it apply to all content?

    Would this actually be a GDPR breach? I was thinking about the right to erasure/to be forgotten earlier in relation to a post I saw about how your posts aren’t deleted on other federated instances, if you delete them on your home server. But I figured it wasn’t applicable because it’s not personal data and I’m thinking the same about this Reddit issue. Can anyone set me straight?

    • Shindig@lemmy.worldOP
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      Yes, definition of personal data from GDPR:

      ‘personal data’ means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (‘data subject’); an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person;

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        Ah, thank you. I didn’t realise the definition covered so much but it makes sense especially with how the data could be used in conjunction with other identifying data. I should obviously brush up on my understanding of GDPR!

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        Folks in the EU should file a GDPR complaint against reddit for every deleted post restored.

        I bet someone could script that and share the code…

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    So I overwrite my posts and deleted with power delete suite, then deleted my account, and I’ve gone back and looked for my most recent posts and comments and they are still indeed gone.

    I’m wondering if some people ran it while subs are already private and it simply wasn’t able to remove those posts and they didn’t show up until the subs became active again?

    Not sure, but it’s not everyone that’s affected apparently.

  • samus12345@lemmy.world
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    After reading this, I’m deleting my post and comment history immediately, but not my account. I will check regularly and delete again if reddit tries to bring it back. Might as well make them work for it.

  • DisparateDan@kbin.social
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    How are they even distinguishing between protest deletions and content that was genuinely deleted for a different reason?

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      Why would they care either way? The only goal is to keep content on the site so the lemming users keep doomscrolling and seeing ads, so they couldn’t give a rats ass if the deleted content was a protest deletion or a generic user deletion.

      Moderator “deletion” is a different kind and wouldn’t be affected by these restores.

  • lz0@kbin.social
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    What script are you using to mass edit? Even if they revert it, I would like to try.

  • deo@kbin.social
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    This is why I edited all my comments to say that a certain CEO is a greedy little pig boy instead of straight on deleting them.