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Any EU based users of reddit should immediately file a complaint under GDPR with their supervisory authority (kbin.social)

submitted 8 months ago by AlteredStateBlob@kbin.social to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] TheHobbyist@lemmy.zip 28 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Former reddit user, deleted my accounts just a few weeks back, should I feel concern that my data may still be involved? I guess there would be no GDPR recourse for me anyway?

[–] DmMacniel@feddit.de 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Did you also deleted your comments and posts?

[–] TheHobbyist@lemmy.zip 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yes, all content possible, before deleting my account.

[–] onion@feddit.de 24 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You didn't delete anything. You told reddit to delete stuff, but whether they actually did that is a different question. It isn't public on their website anymore, but the data might still be lying around on their servers

[–] MouseWithBeer@iusearchlinux.fyi 25 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (4 children)

Yea they keep all the data. I deleted everything on my account when the whole shitshow happened and then GDPR requested the data associated with the account and it was all still there. And when I requested that they delete that too they outright refused.

[–] Metz@lemmy.world 15 points 8 months ago

i would love to see the answer from reddit because that sounds extremely illegal. keeping the data alone is already a violation.

[–] voracitude@lemmy.world 10 points 8 months ago

If you're in the EU, I hope you have documentation of that. Could prove useful.

[–] vorpuni@jlai.lu 6 points 8 months ago

Can you post a short version of what you sent them for inspiration?

[–] winterayars@sh.itjust.works 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

That sounds like a gdpr violation. Companies can keep some things under the gdpr even when asked to delete them but i doubt your comments or whatever fall into that category.

[–] LWD@lemm.ee 4 points 8 months ago

Elsewhere in this thread, somebody mentions that Reddit only needs to unlink your comments from your identity in order for it to be technically legal for them to hang on to them.

But if you do a GDPR request for your account and it comes back with your comments, they clearly haven't even done that.

[–] topinambour_rex@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago

You can ask to have everything related to you, to be deleted. Just provide your email.