I just logged in and checked my reddit account, and all my deleted posts have come back.
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If this checks out, they may be in disrespect of a bunch of privacy laws including GDPR.
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
4% feels really low, I wish the EU set it to like 25%
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.
Looks like it checks out. https://mstdn.games/@chris/110553477682106144
Damn with screenshots and everything. Reddit might be screwd
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?
if we want to be more mischievous… https://lemmy.ml/post/1320610
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.
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.
My guess is that then they’ll just restore the edits
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.
How are they even distinguishing between protest deletions and content that was genuinely deleted for a different reason?
Likely an algorithm that detects a large number of of quick deletions.
Holy shit! They restored my comments that I deleted the other day. What a crock of shit. Fuck u/spez.
This is wild. What the hell
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.
Supposedly they’re also undoing mass edits
Fucking pigboy doing pigboy things
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.
WTF!!! Thx for raising awareness. This is crossing a line.
I guess next step would be not to delete posts but to edit them.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.
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.
Except they’re also apparently restoring even edited posts and comments.
Source?
I scrubbed two accounts on the 13th, and they’re both back with the original posts as of this morning the 16th.
Same for me
I did this for this exact reason
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?
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;
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!
What script are you using to mass edit? Even if they revert it, I would like to try.
I used PowerDeleteSuite to edit and delete. You can configure it to just edit if you want.
Edits seem to be throttled to one every 5 seconds. I ran powerdeletesuite several times and it got most of my comments, but still not all.
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)
