BrightCandleJul 27, 2023

Reddit undeleting comments and hiding them

https://lemmy.world/post/2257396

Reddit undeleting comments and hiding them - Lemmy.world

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.

Show threadInternetTubes
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.
Jul 28, 2023 at 7:53pmWeb
Show threadGanbatJul 29, 2023
This doesn’t account for the post being hidden from your post history on accounts that aren’t banned, which I’ve seen firsthand.
Show threadFederalBureauOfDankJul 29, 2023
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
Show threadInternetTubesJul 29, 2023

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”.

techgdpr.com/…/difference-between-pii-and-persona…

Art. 17 GDPR – Right to erasure (‘right to be forgotten’) - General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

The data subject shall have the right to obtain from the controller the erasure of personal data concerning him or her without undue delay and the controller shall have the obligation to erase personal data without undue delay where one of the following grounds applies: the personal data are no longer necessary in relation to … Continue reading Art. 17 GDPR – Right to erasure (‘right to be forgotten’)

General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
Show threadFederalBureauOfDankJul 29, 2023

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.

Show threadInternetTubesJul 29, 2023

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:

arighttobeforgotten.co.uk/right-to-be-forgotten-s… wolf.agency/en/the-right-to-be-forgotten/ …thomsonreuters.com/…/erasing-your-private-inform…

I’m sorry, but outside of the US, you don’t get a free pass to be shitty.

Right To Be Forgotten Lawyers - Removing posts from social media

Right to be forgotten social media companies are subject to the same rules as the major search engines when it comes to a right to be forgotten.

Show threadFederalBureauOfDankJul 30, 2023
Not American. You misunderstanding the concept of “personal”.
Show threadInternetTubesJul 30, 2023
Tell your people to distribute their downvotes further up the branch, they look as ridiculous as your claims.
Show threadFederalBureauOfDankJul 30, 2023
Whatever makes you feel better. Keep screaming GDPR at everything…
Show threadInternetTubesJul 30, 2023
Hey, at least I don’t need fake alts, comes with being right.