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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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[–] shindig1457@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yes, definition of personal data from GDPR:

'personal data' means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (‘data subject’); an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person;

[–] whitehatbofh@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Folks in the EU should file a GDPR complaint against reddit for every deleted post restored.

I bet someone could script that and share the code...

[–] LChitman@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Ah, thank you. I didn't realise the definition covered so much but it makes sense especially with how the data could be used in conjunction with other identifying data. I should obviously brush up on my understanding of GDPR!