• ckempo@feddit.uk
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    It’s important, this. With rumours of posts being undeleted and the like, it seems that Reddit are fudging their content somewhat. BUT: in theory I expect that the GDPR would protect those covered by it (not me, in the UK, post-Brexit ☹️) from this, and anything deleted must stay that way?

    Dunno if there’s gonna be more fun on this front in the future.

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      Although we’re no longer under the higher level EU legislation, the entirety of it was incorporated into an updated DPA during the Brexit reconciliation process.

      https://uk-gdpr.org/

      So you could still go through the same process… and frankly Reddit won’t really know whether they need to act by it so go ahead…

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        The last bit is a big one. They have no way of knowing your citizenship. Even if you’ve never logged in with that country’s IP addresses, you could have a dual citizenship or be an expat. How will they know if I claim to be German? Even if they ask for proof, I could send them a driver’s license pic from the Internet with all information redacted for privacy and security reasons.

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      I wonder how their algorithm would respond to using a free VPN like proton, using a California/EU based instance and filing a CCPR/GDPR. I imagine it must lean on the conservative side of assuming it is a valid legal request.

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      It’s not rumors. I tried it last night and they’re trickling back in slowly.

      Edit: Looks like it’s just from subs that were private and got unprivated. Those comments couldn’t be deleted and end “reappearing”.

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        Fair enough. I meant “rumours” in as much as I’ve not tried it myself yet so am not speaking from experience, rather than people making anything up. I don’t doubt they’re being shits with our data (likely because they’re going to say it’s THEIR data as per various clauses in the user agreement etc)

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          You’re right it looks like it is. Guess that’s where the confusion is coming from.