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Reddit beats film industry, won’t have to identify users who admitted torrenting (arstechnica.com)
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Reddit beats film industry, won’t have to identify users who admitted torrenting::Court quashes subpoena for names of users who talked torrenting in 2011 thread.

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[–] Blamemeta 31 points 2 years ago (2 children)

They don't have names, so Im not sure what they expect.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Actually, if one uses the official Reddit app, they do have real names. It’s part of the data that the app reads out of your phone’s settings.

[–] TORFdot0 23 points 2 years ago

The official app didn’t exist in 2011 so they likely don’t have that information unless the user kept their account and used the official app at one point

[–] inspxtr 15 points 2 years ago

has anyone made a data request, especially GDPR, to confirm this?

[–] Buffalox 6 points 2 years ago

The only place I have my name, is in "emergency information". Are you saying apps can access that?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

That's scary af.

I would not want my reddit or lemmy name be hard tied to my real name.

[–] Sarcastik 1 points 2 years ago

And now people are just starting to realize what real issue with the official reddit app is.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

Test message

[–] cheese_greater 3 points 2 years ago

All these inputs apps have free-reign over need to become part of the explicit privacy settings.

[–] player2 3 points 2 years ago

It's possible to have an email address associated with your Reddit account which might provide names.