Reddit can restore your deleted posts. However, if people flood them with GDPR / CCPA delete requests, they may become liable for lawsuits if they don’t comply.
It sounds like their current policy is to not delete your posts even when deleting your account, but there may be grounds for legal action here.
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Right, but let’s suppose the following:
I run some software to remove all my posts and comments (like PowerDeleteSuite), then go to some of these posts/comments and screenshot them, gathering proof the posts were in fact deleted. After a few days, if I go to these same posts/comments and screenshot them proving they were in fact restored by Reddit without my consent, wouldn’t this be a ToS/PP infringement by their part, thus opening the door for some legal action?
Note that I’m not talking about GDPR since it only covers EU citizens and only applies when PII is involved (thanks for clarifying btw)
Surely you have loads of experience, yet you lack reading capabilities. I suggest you re-read the information above and draw your own conclusions. I won’t be discussing this any longer, as you must be clearly trolling or lacking in the reading department.
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I was answering a comment regarding Reddit’s ownership of our content and if we’re allowed to delete it or not.
From OP:
I’m sure my comments are still well within topic here?
Lil bro tried to read a second time and still failed, please don’t try again. 😭😭😭😭
GDPR applies to all data that can be used to identify a living person (you). The Terms of Service are your contract with reddit, and intellectual property right in portions of your comments that are not personal data would apply to that. The privacy policy applies to everything, because it is the company’s notice about what they do and don’t do, and they must stick by that, or else they violate the FTC’s rules on consumer fairness (among other things). Most companies would simply allow users control over their comments to ensure GDPR compliance, although technically reddit is not required by GDPR to delete or afford any rights related to personal data… UNLESS, they have specified so in their privacy notice and/or terms of service. There, that’s my second comment ever in kbin. I’m personally very sick with Reddit’s conduct. It’s definitely enshitification. Either way, EU data protection authorities would take a very dim view of the willy-nillly way in which Reddit reinstated supposedly deleted comments even without considering the specific content. I suspect the FTC would not be real keen on it either.
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