- cross-posted to:
- technology@beehaw.org
- privacy@programming.dev
- cross-posted to:
- technology@beehaw.org
- privacy@programming.dev
This video shows that Reddit refused to delete all comments and posts of its users when they close their account via a CCPA / GDPR request.
This sounds like malicious incompetence…
Not necessarily, although Reddit can definitely choose to play it that way.
A lot of systems made in the pre-GDPR era (which is most of them) were not designed with the capability to decouple and erase content at a moment’s notice.
Btw incompetence won’t hold up as a valid defence for violating GDPR. At most it can give them some stalling room.