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What if that content includes personal data about me? My hopes, dreams, preferences, plans, goals and political opinions?
by Drakim 3y ago
What if that content includes personal data about me? My hopes, dreams, preferences, plans, goals and political opinions?
- LudwigNagasena 3y agoThat’s an interesting question in principle (even if there are some clear legal directives). You can try to reconstruct a user profile even just from a list of commonly visited subreddits. It can help gauge age, location, personal interests and political convictions. And if you have access to the content of the messages, well, even doxing may be possible.
- codingdave 3y agoWhat if it does? I am not under the impression that those fall under PII/GDPR (IANAL), so if you post that stuff online to a site you do not control, it certainly has the potential to remain there. And that is the heart of one the problems with reddit or any other site that encourages people to post everything under the sun. You are giving up control of what then happens with your content.
- jwestbury 3y agoGDPR protects any data which can be tied to an identifiable person. So, if reddit posts are attached to my username, and my username can ultimately be tied back to me (see: my username is my name), then reddit cannot disallow deletion of these posts. There may be a workaround by no longer identifying them with a specific user, but this would have to be done on the back end, as simply changing who the displayed user is would still leave the data intact.