Anyone in the EU experiencing undeleted stuff?
Is it possibly they are specifically geotargeting IP's to undelete stuff and therefore avoid GDPR?
Reddit appears to be restoring edited/deleted comments
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#562Earlier quoted context omitted.
Unlike every other data operation, deletion is heavily regulated by law.
Sure. I can't wait to see all the lawsuits and fines overwhelming Reddit, and any other service that have occasional data consistency issues. This is heavily regulated by law, of course. Of course this isn't "heavily regulated". No law demands 100% consistency when you run some third party script during an outage . Clicking "delete" on a comment, or having a script do it, is not some GPDR enforced action.
You are incredibly wrong about this. Consent for data processing is the meat & potatoes of both GDPR and the largest enforcement actions that have happened through it. The delete button revoked consent.
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#563Earlier quoted context omitted.
> On some accounts, I translate everything I write twice for greater anonymity. Beware, in some cases uncommon or unique anonymization techniques may make you _easier_ to de-anonymize.
Easier to pinpoint as unique, sure, but de-anonymize? How?
I probably should have just said "cross-reference," but here's a hand-wavy scenario. The gist is, the more information you have on a persona, the more you can filter out identity candidates.
So, for example, if you have unique anonymous accounts for multiple online communities but use an identifiable "anonymization" scheme (and with the right heuristics and AI "magic" this need not be a targeted attack), I can correlate and build a profile on you: Military history enthusiast, knife owner, lives in Maine, Boston U alumni, class of 2001, active hours imply working 9-5, age 39, etc.
Which is probably enough to compare against public records, leaked data, whatever, to pinpoint a single individual.
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GDPR request to request your data and then one to delete all data about you. If they don’t comply, they’ll get fined, and I have the feeling it will not be a small one given how they handle things
I think Reddit, like most U.S. web based companies aren't overly concerned with GDPR in many situations, and they are focused on what looks best for their IPO.
Doesn't matter. They operate in the EU therefore they can still be fined. They can of course decide block access from EU countries.
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#565Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think Reddit, like most U.S. web based companies aren't overly concerned with GDPR in many situations, and they are focused on what looks best for their IPO.
Doesn't matter. They operate in the EU therefore they can still be fined. They can of course decide block access from EU countries.
Firstly operating in the EU doesn't mean your entire global operation has to conform to EU regulations. Unless the user in question is in the EU, I think they would be hard pressed to apply fines.
But Reddit is a bit off the rails right now, I mean it is clear they aren't making good or smart choices, so even if this is solely bound to the confines of the EU, I don't think they are going to follow the rules, until they are made to.
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#568I made an extension that lets you delete Reddit posts and comments, but if Reddit is doing this maybe I can add a feature to periodically check if comments actually stayed deleted and if not delete them again. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bulk-delete-reddit...
Unfortunately this doesn't work to delete the messages that have been restored, because they don't appear in /comments" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://old.reddit.com/user//comments.
Other deletion tools I've tried also don't work because of this.
Re: Reddit appears to be restoring edited/deleted comments
#569I made an extension that lets you delete Reddit posts and comments, but if Reddit is doing this maybe I can add a feature to periodically check if comments actually stayed deleted and if not delete them again. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bulk-delete-reddit...
Unfortunately this doesn't work to delete the messages that have been restored, because they don't appear in /comments" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://old.reddit.com/user/ /comments . Other deletion tools I've tried also don't work because of this.
Hm, can you give an example?
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#570Earlier quoted context omitted.
The trouble with throw away accounts is that there is technology to link the accounts by comparing your writing style to other accounts. Hacker news had a good demonstration of that awhile back. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33755016
Some might call me paranoid, but I also change my writing style between sensitive accounts. Not all, because that would be a bother, but between accounts where I'm a moderator and those where I'm a normal user, I make sure to change my mindset. On some accounts, I translate everything I write twice for greater anonymity.
How exactly do you do that ?