This video shows that Reddit refused to delete all comments and posts of its users when they close their account via a CCPA / GDPR request.

  • lemmyvore
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    1 year ago

    Not necessarily, although Reddit can definitely choose to play it that way.

    A lot of systems made in the pre-GDPR era (which is most of them) were not designed with the capability to decouple and erase content at a moment’s notice.

    Btw incompetence won’t hold up as a valid defence for violating GDPR. At most it can give them some stalling room.