I just logged in and checked my reddit account, and all my deleted posts have come back.
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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:
- 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.
- 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.
Personally, I’d file the complaint with the Irish government. They seem to have a habit of going after big social media companies like Meta for GDPR violations.
Mm mm sure does smell like EU legal action in here.
On a serious note, that is an absolute new low for Reddit and I’m sorry that you have to deal with it right now.
@Alkalyon @shindig1457 I deleted my reddit account today. It’s going to crash and burn and I’m here for it
I am going to lodge a formal complain about GDPR violations as I do have proof of this in my emails.
This is the way.
Can a non European make use of this. Or do I have to be in Europe to make and register a complaint. I assume there is nothing I can do here but I might as well ask.
For companies, GDPR applies to people in European Economic Area whose data is used by companies, or companies that have an office in EEA or another stable arrangement in EEA and process personal data of people located anywhere.
GDPR applies to people in European Economic Area whose data is used by companies,
I am in Greece. I am protected by GDPR.
yes
How much could they get fined for this?
Holy shit! They restored my comments that I deleted the other day. What a crock of shit. Fuck u/spez.
This is wild. What the hell
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.
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.
Rather than delete posts, I propose all rexxitors instead edit all of their posts and comments to say that they are leaving reddit for good to go to the fediverse instead. Such edits should provide links to major Fediverse sites and getting started guides, with advice for other redditors to abandon that place and join us here.
My guess is that then they’ll just restore the edits
If this checks out, they may be in disrespect of a bunch of privacy laws including GDPR.
And you really don’t want to screw around with GDPR:
- Non-compliance with an order by the supervisory authority as referred to in Article 58(2) shall, in accordance with paragraph 2 of this Article, be subject to administrative fines up to 20 000 000 EUR, or in the case of an undertaking, up to 4 % of the total worldwide annual turnover of the preceding financial year, whichever is higher.
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:32016R0679#d1e6226-1-1
Looks like it checks out. https://mstdn.games/@chris/110553477682106144
Damn with screenshots and everything. Reddit might be screwd
I have mentioned it in my other comment in this thread.
The link that the thread you linked to, has, doesn’t work. It doesn’t even have an option to delete your data. I have screenshots on my other comment.
Reddit doesn’t have a way for you to delete your data which against the GDPR.
I have comments and posts that aren’t appearing in my profile on new or old Reddit. It’s nearly impossible to comb everything to find them. I deleted everything I could but I’m still finding things.
They’re really scraping the barrel now.
But the main thing we can do is move quality content here.
WTF!!! Thx for raising awareness. This is crossing a line.
I guess next step would be not to delete posts but to edit them.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.
This might be a silly question, because you know, big companies tend to ignore laws, but this cannot be GDPR (or maybe more importantly for this the California equivalent due to jurisdiction) compliant right?
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.
you can schedule deletions with redact.dev app, in case you wanna set it up automatically
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.
Supposedly they’re also undoing mass edits
Fucking pigboy doing pigboy things
They also reverted those back.
if we want to be more mischievous… https://lemmy.ml/post/1320610
@shindig1457
GDPR is going to have fun with that…
