Reddit is restoring deleted posts : reddit

[–] Alkalyon@lemmy.ml 23 points 2 years ago (11 children)

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:

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.
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.

[–] wrath-sedan@kbin.social 7 points 2 years ago

Mm mm sure does smell like EU legal action in here.

On a serious note, that is an absolute new low for Reddit and I’m sorry that you have to deal with it right now.

[–] whitehatbofh@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] Cynosure@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

How much could they get fined for this?

[–] Alkalyon@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

But even the catalogue of less severe violations in Art. 83(4) GDPR sets forth fines of up to 10 million euros, or, in the case of an undertaking, up to 2% of its entire global turnover of the preceding fiscal year, whichever is higher.

[–] jcb2016_@mastodon.social 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

@Alkalyon @shindig1457 I deleted my reddit account today. It's going to crash and burn and I'm here for it

[–] shindig1457@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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.

[–] Eavolution@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

Personally, I'd file the complaint with the Irish government. They seem to have a habit of going after big social media companies like Meta for GDPR violations.

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[–] Beardliest@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Holy shit! They restored my comments that I deleted the other day. What a crock of shit. Fuck u/spez.

[–] KillaBeez@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

This is wild. What the hell

[–] Ungoliantsspawn@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (3 children)

If this checks out, they may be in disrespect of a bunch of privacy laws including GDPR.

[–] President_Pyrus@feddit.dk 3 points 2 years ago

And you really don't want to screw around with GDPR:

Non-compliance with an order by the supervisory authority as referred to in Article 58(2) shall, in accordance with paragraph 2 of this Article, be subject to administrative fines up to 20 000 000 EUR, or in the case of an undertaking, up to 4 % of the total worldwide annual turnover of the preceding financial year, whichever is higher.

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:32016R0679#d1e6226-1-1

[–] onepinksheep@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Looks like it checks out. https://mstdn.games/@chris/110553477682106144

[–] Ungoliantsspawn@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Damn with screenshots and everything. Reddit might be screwd

[–] dhork@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Now, that depends. Does the GPDR require a formal process to request to be deleted? They could claim that any activity that doesn't come in through that formal process doesn't count.

Sounds like all you EU Redditors that had your comments restored need to use that account deletion page.

[–] Ungoliantsspawn@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Not familiar with or if they have a complain process, but anyone(European) can file a complain with their national data protection authority ... That should be enough to trigger an investigation.

[–] DisparateDan@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

How are they even distinguishing between protest deletions and content that was genuinely deleted for a different reason?

[–] dead_in_spirit@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

Likely an algorithm that detects a large number of of quick deletions.

[–] Drinkoffee@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

WTF!!! Thx for raising awareness. This is crossing a line.
I guess next step would be not to delete posts but to edit them.

[–] CynAq@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago

Another user said they restore edited content too. They blanket restore anyone's content which looks like it's deleted by a script.

I can't go on and manually delete twelve years of comments, I don't think anyone can.

This will only be resolved if enough people take them to court and reddit is forced to add a complete data deletion option for all users.

[–] LChitman@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Copying my comment from another thread below. I have since realised that Reddit does have to be GDPR compliant so it must be applicable, but does it apply to all content?

Would this actually be a GDPR breach? I was thinking about the right to erasure/to be forgotten earlier in relation to a post I saw about how your posts aren't deleted on other federated instances, if you delete them on your home server. But I figured it wasn't applicable because it's not personal data and I'm thinking the same about this Reddit issue. Can anyone set me straight?

[–] shindig1457@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yes, definition of personal data from GDPR:

'personal data' means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (‘data subject’); an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person;

[–] LChitman@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

Ah, thank you. I didn't realise the definition covered so much but it makes sense especially with how the data could be used in conjunction with other identifying data. I should obviously brush up on my understanding of GDPR!

[–] die444die@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] nivenkos@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

They're really scraping the barrel now.

But the main thing we can do is move quality content here.

[–] lz0@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What script are you using to mass edit? Even if they revert it, I would like to try.

[–] skogens_ro@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago

I used PowerDeleteSuite to edit and delete. You can configure it to just edit if you want.

[–] whitehatbofh@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years 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.

[–] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years 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.

[–] jamon@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

if we want to be more mischievous... https://lemmy.ml/post/1320610

[–] thesnable@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

"Nice". I deleted my account after that.. hopefully my articles stay deleted

[–] AlteredStateBlob@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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.

[–] onepinksheep@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Except they're also apparently restoring even edited posts and comments.

[–] ethane@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Source?

[–] solidgrue@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I scrubbed two accounts on the 13th, and they're both back with the original posts as of this morning the 16th.

[–] ShakeThatYam@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Same for me

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[–] BrooklynMan@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

I did this for this exact reason

[–] CooperRedArmyDog@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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?

[–] FIST_FILLET@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

thankful i used a script to mass-edit my profile, which seems to still be in effect (first and only time i visit a reddit URL post-spezdown, just directly typed my profile link so i don't give the front page any "views" or "engagement" or whatever the corpo hogs are calling it now)

[–] whitehatbofh@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

https://github.com/xaradox/reddit-comment-nuke

[–] deo@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This is why I edited all my comments to say that a certain CEO is a greedy little pig boy instead of straight on deleting them.

[–] auhu@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

Supposedly they're also undoing mass edits

Fucking pigboy doing pigboy things

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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