I came across today one of my own comments on Reddit with a search on duckduckgo. It was still intact. The problem is I used shreddit to randomise and delete the entire contents of my account. My account comments and posts all show empty on my account pages on reddit so there should be nothing.
I did a site:reddit.com search using my username and found ~50 comments that Reddit has undeleted but also hide from my own account. I could still edit and delete them. Its curious that they don’t appear on my accounts content on Reddit and yet a search engine can find them and they are still served by Reddit. Ex Reddit users who deleted their account contents should be aware this is happening and report it as a GDPR breach to their respective agencies if they are in the EU if they too find this has occurred.
Reddit doesn’t allow you to delete comments in communities you can’t access, which means they can come back when the community is unprivated. This is completely against the GDPR, since they provide no other way for you to delete your comments. And if you are banned, you won’t even be able to access your comment history to delete them.
The reason nothing happens is because no one is going to unite under a class action lawsuit to make it happen, and when all is said and done EU politicians don’t really listen to these complaints. Try getting in contact with Margrethe Vestager, but don’t expect a reply, even though they had no problem doing an interview and Q&A with Reddit Talk under pluralism activists like Akaash Maharaj who let themselves get compromised by reddit’s NFT confidence scam. At the end of the day, they’ll still maintain their Twitter and Reddit accounts while only paying lip service to the fediverse and ignoring GDPR violations they could themselves claim if they were so interested.
This doesn’t account for the post being hidden from your post history on accounts that aren’t banned, which I’ve seen firsthand.
Is it really a GDPR violation if no article 17 request was sent AND those comments contain no PII? PII is the key for GDPR, your “IP”/contribution to Reddit means nothing
https://gdpr-info.eu/art-17-gdpr/
Read it and weep, it’s not just PII, it’s PD. Sort of why it’s called “Right to be Forgotten”.
https://techgdpr.com/blog/difference-between-pii-and-personal-data/
“Personal data” shall mean any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person Even pseudonymised data falls under it,
Yes strong protection will make me cry so hard.
If my reddit comments are helping troubleshoot something technical and unrelated to me, that still isn’t personal data. Valuable comments will be available on reddit and generating them traffic from Google searches regardless of how much people here scream about GDPR.
In other words, you didn’t read the links. Here is another one from actual lawyers who actually know the law and do actually prosecute for it:
https://arighttobeforgotten.co.uk/right-to-be-forgotten-social-media
https://wolf.agency/en/the-right-to-be-forgotten/
https://legal.thomsonreuters.com/en/insights/articles/erasing-your-private-information-from-cyberspace
I’m sorry, but outside of the US, you don’t get a free pass to be shitty. It will still require money and effort to bring to court, however.
Not American. You misunderstand the concept of “personal”.
Edit: also it doesn’t really matter if you are in the US (or where you are at all). If you deal with European customers (their data) you have to obey GDPR. That’s why some sites have opted to simply block European visitors.
Tell your people/alts to distribute their downvotes further up the branch, they look as ridiculous as your inability to understand evidence even when directly presented with it. It’s sort of funny to not even have them show up on kbin, I imagine it might be some misguided attempt at obfuscating, although the positive upvotes from accounts with zero comments or activity in old deep threaded content tell me enough. Man I love the transparency in contrast to reddit 😀
Whatever makes you feel better. Keep screaming GDPR at everything…
Hey, at least I don’t need fake alts, comes with being right.