liminis 12 points 3 years ago

Assuming this isn't just a temporary caching issue like someone else has suggested, denying people the right to delete their own data risks bring a GDPR nightmare down no the company.

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EnglishMobster 6 points 3 years ago

Reddit sees "anonymized" data as being okay via GDPR. Thus Reddit thinks they can comply with GDPR by simply deleting your name off of the top of all the comments you leave behind.

This is why you occasionally see comments marked as written by [deleted] with the comment body intact - that user used the GDPR to wipe their account.

I'm not an expert on any legal system, let alone the European one, and so I can't say if that's sufficient by the letter of the law. But Reddit seems to think so, and thus if you "delete" your stuff it really just deletes your username (basically).

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abff08f4813c 4 points 3 years ago

Removing the name isn't enough. Some posts might contain stuff like "my real name is .. and i live in so-and-so city" or "my birthday is today too!" which would all count as PII. This would need to be scrubbed too.

For the "[deleted]" part - there's another way that happens. If you delete your reddit account w/o deleting the comment/post, then your text stays, but "[deleted]" is reported as the user who wrote it.

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FaceDeer 1 point 3 years ago

They have the right to delete data that's about them. Perhaps Reddit will make the case that the contents of their comments aren't that, and once an account has been deleted so that those comments are no longer associated with a username then the identifiable personal information has been removed.

Assuming this isn't just crappy caching issues.

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