I just logged in and checked my reddit account, and all my deleted posts have come back.
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.
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.
Removed by mod
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.
@Alkalyon @shindig1457 I deleted my reddit account today. It’s going to crash and burn and I’m here for it
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.
How much could they get fined for this?
I have comments and posts that aren’t appearing in my profile on new or old Reddit. It’s nearly impossible to comb everything to find them. I deleted everything I could but I’m still finding things.
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.
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.
you can schedule deletions with redact.dev app, in case you wanna set it up automatically