GDPR applies to all data that can be used to identify a living person (you). The Terms of Service are your contract with reddit, and intellectual property right in portions of your comments that are not personal data would apply to that. The privacy policy applies to everything, because it is the company’s notice about what they do and don’t do, and they must stick by that, or else they violate the FTC’s rules on consumer fairness (among other things). Most companies would simply allow users control over their comments to ensure GDPR compliance, although technically reddit is not required by GDPR to delete or afford any rights related to personal data… UNLESS, they have specified so in their privacy notice and/or terms of service. There, that’s my second comment ever in kbin. I’m personally very sick with Reddit’s conduct. It’s definitely enshitification. Either way, EU data protection authorities would take a very dim view of the willy-nillly way in which Reddit reinstated supposedly deleted comments even without considering the specific content. I suspect the FTC would not be real keen on it either.
GDPR applies to all data that can be used to identify a living person (you). The Terms of Service are your contract with reddit, and intellectual property right in portions of your comments that are not personal data would apply to that. The privacy policy applies to everything, because it is the company’s notice about what they do and don’t do, and they must stick by that, or else they violate the FTC’s rules on consumer fairness (among other things). Most companies would simply allow users control over their comments to ensure GDPR compliance, although technically reddit is not required by GDPR to delete or afford any rights related to personal data… UNLESS, they have specified so in their privacy notice and/or terms of service. There, that’s my second comment ever in kbin. I’m personally very sick with Reddit’s conduct. It’s definitely enshitification. Either way, EU data protection authorities would take a very dim view of the willy-nillly way in which Reddit reinstated supposedly deleted comments even without considering the specific content. I suspect the FTC would not be real keen on it either.