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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      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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        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.

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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.

  • 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.

  • Red Army Dog Cooper@lemmy.ml
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    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?

  • 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.

  • whitehatbofh@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    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.

  • die444die@lemmy.world
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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.

  • 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.

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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.

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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.

    • Ado@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      you can schedule deletions with redact.dev app, in case you wanna set it up automatically

  • 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.