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  • hddsx@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    What’s stopping Reddit from checking your IP and seeing that you’re not from the EU and restoring your data from a backup

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      1 year ago

      It would leave them open to potentially devastating legal consequences if an affected EU citizen can prove in court that reddit makes money of his content, which he deleted. Also the “right to be forgotten” as in the GDPR formulated would be violated.

      IF reddit really goes that way, they’d have to anonymize at least the usernames. Which would make it extremely hard to prove that something is “your content” and not someone elses.

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        1 year ago

        So it’s not enough to prove that the IP used is not from the EU and that therefore it’s (supposedly) not under EU jurisdiction?

        It covers EU citizens traveling abroad?

        If so, dang that’s a good law