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

  • Alkalyon@lemmy.ml
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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:

    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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      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.

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        Yea, get onto your national data commissioner or friendly solicitor and see what happens, it’s crazy that they aren’t following GDPR. Good luck!

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      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.

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      They are supposed to verify that the person requesting deletion or another right under GDPR is the same as the person whose data it is, or that at least the requester is authorized to act for the person whose data it is.

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        The controller should use all reasonable measures to verify the identity of a data subject

        Huge emphasis on reasonable. If by asking me to log in for the sake of verification results in me not being able to delete my data as I’ve demonstrated above, then this is 100% NOT REASONABLE.

        They are actively hindering the process that GDPR requires me to take.

        I don’t care about the small letters, this is a GDPR violation. I should have an easy way to delete my data and this ain’t it.

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        You can file a complaint with any EU supervisory authority, even if you’re not personally an EU citizen, as long as the company you’re complaining about does operate specifically and targeted in the EU. It is better if you are a citizen though. But as long as they’re mishandling EU citizens data, doesn’t matter who tells the authorities.

      • Shindig@lemmy.worldOP
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        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.

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        If you are not a European citizen you cannot ask for your data to be deleted but you 100% can report a company, in this context Reddit, for not complying with GDPR.

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      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.

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

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    They’re really scraping the barrel now.

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

  • AFK BRB Chocolate@lemmy.world
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    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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    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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    Reddit restoring deleted comments somehow doesn’t surprise me. Their descent seems to be accelerating. Nice try, losers. I’m still not going back.

  • 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?

    • empireOfLove@lemmy.one
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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.

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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!

  • 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.

  • whitehatbofh@lemmy.world
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    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.

  • 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.

  • AlteredStateBlob@kbin.social
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    That is exactly why you should always edit your stuff before deleting it. Very few companies ever save more than the last version of your stuff, due to space and performance considerations. That way they can restore whatever they want, it’ll simply come out as “x” or whatever you put in there.

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          I scrubbed two accounts on the 13th, and they’re both back with the original posts as of this morning the 16th.

            • SolidGrue@lemmy.world
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              Hmmm, not to be an apologist, but I wonder if this isn’t a data set integrity problem on reddits end. I reran PowerDeleteSuite, and it “acted funny” through the process.

              When I checked my profile again, some posts were edited, and others were not. As I was paging through and manually editing the misses, the list of pages got shorder and shorter.

              Perhaps a cache flush? I’m not saying put away the pitchforks here, just… This is weird.