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Fair to assume reddit is now limiting account deletion (www.reddit.com)

submitted 1 year ago by theory@sopuli.xyz to c/reddit@lemmy.ml

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Now this is taking the piss

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[-] pleasemakesense@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

Don't think that is compatible with GDPR, or?

[-] linearchaos@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

GDPR is wrapped around personal information specifically related to identifying someone. Well it's possible to have posts that can demanded to be taken down by GDPR the vast majority of the stuff on Reddit is not applicable.

There's a post on this link specifically talking about the part of the legal code that considers this

https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/28276/are-internet-forum-posts-considered-personal-data-under-gdpr

[-] pleasemakesense@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

I see, unfortunate

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