It’s important, this. With rumours of posts being undeleted and the like, it seems that Reddit are fudging their content somewhat. BUT: in theory I expect that the GDPR would protect those covered by it (not me, in the UK, post-Brexit ☹️) from this, and anything deleted must stay that way?
Dunno if there’s gonna be more fun on this front in the future.
Although we’re no longer under the higher level EU legislation, the entirety of it was incorporated into an updated DPA during the Brexit reconciliation process.
So you could still go through the same process… and frankly Reddit won’t really know whether they need to act by it so go ahead…
Lovely, wasn’t aware of this, thank you!
The last bit is a big one. They have no way of knowing your citizenship. Even if you’ve never logged in with that country’s IP addresses, you could have a dual citizenship or be an expat. How will they know if I claim to be German? Even if they ask for proof, I could send them a driver’s license pic from the Internet with all information redacted for privacy and security reasons.
It’s not rumors. I tried it last night and they’re trickling back in slowly. Edit: Looks like it’s just from subs that were private and got unprivated. Those comments couldn’t be deleted and end “reappearing”.
Is it comments from subs that just came back from being dark?
You’re right it looks like it is. Guess that’s where the confusion is coming from.
Fair enough. I meant “rumours” in as much as I’ve not tried it myself yet so am not speaking from experience, rather than people making anything up. I don’t doubt they’re being shits with our data (likely because they’re going to say it’s THEIR data as per various clauses in the user agreement etc)
I wonder how their algorithm would respond to using a free VPN like proton, using a California/EU based instance and filing a CCPR/GDPR. I imagine it must lean on the conservative side of assuming it is a valid legal request.
Template letter to request your data or delete your data under GDPR here if you need it: https://www.datarequests.org/sample-letters/
Nice! Thank you! That’s very helpful
