Reddit is restoring deleted posts : reddit

[–] Alkalyon@lemmy.ml 23 points 2 years ago (8 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 4 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.

[–] Eavolution@kbin.social 3 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.

[–] whitehatbofh@lemmy.world 2 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.

[–] 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.

[–] 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

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

@Alkalyon

@shindig1457

Can a non European make use of this. Or do I have to be in Europe to make and register a complaint. I assume there is nothing I can do here but I might as well ask.

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[–] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world 4 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.

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

They're really scraping the barrel now.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Damn with screenshots and everything. Reddit might be screwd

[–] President_Pyrus@feddit.dk 1 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

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

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.

[–] 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 (2 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!

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

Folks in the EU should file a GDPR complaint against reddit for every deleted post restored.

I bet someone could script that and share the code...

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

This is wild. What the hell

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

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

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

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

[–] empireOfLove@lemmy.one 1 points 2 years ago

Why would they care either way? The only goal is to keep content on the site so the lemming users keep doomscrolling and seeing ads, so they couldn't give a rats ass if the deleted content was a protest deletion or a generic user deletion.

Moderator "deletion" is a different kind and wouldn't be affected by these restores.

[–] 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 (1 children)

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

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[–] die444die@lemmy.world 2 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.

[–] Drinkoffee@lemmy.world 2 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.

[–] 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.

[–] deo@kbin.social 1 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 3 points 2 years ago

Supposedly they're also undoing mass edits

Fucking pigboy doing pigboy things

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

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

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

I don't think deleting your account impacts your content there in any way. I've seen lots of posts in the past from accounts that were deleted after posting.

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 1 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

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

Reddit restoring deleted comments somehow doesn't surprise me. Their descent seems to be accelerating. Nice try, losers. I'm still not going back.

[–] 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)

[–] faduda@mastodon.ie 1 points 2 years ago

@shindig1457
GDPR is going to have fun with that...