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Reddit is restoring deleted posts (mstdn.games)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by shindig1457 to c/[email protected]
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I just logged in and checked my reddit account, and all my deleted posts have come back.

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[–] Ungoliantsspawn 57 points 1 year ago (3 children)

If this checks out, they may be in disrespect of a bunch of privacy laws including GDPR.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And you really don't want to screw around with GDPR:

  1. 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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

4% feels really low, I wish the EU set it to like 25%

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Ungoliantsspawn 11 points 1 year ago

Damn with screenshots and everything. Reddit might be screwd

[–] dhork 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Ungoliantsspawn 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Not familiar with or if they have a complain process, but anyone(European) can file a complain with their national data protection authority ... That should be enough to trigger an investigation.

[–] boredtortoise 1 points 1 year ago

The request can be in any form and to anyone in the company