reddit is telling it's future investors with recent news and more info on their IPO, that they're currently selling and looking to sell their user's data to companies wanting to train their LLMs, including Google....
Au contraire. If they didn’t delete the information when asked to under the GDPR, and they get caught deleting evidence after a suit was filed (civil by one of us, criminal by the EU), they’re in even bigger trouble. Reddit would have to be very careful to cover their tracks, and they won’t be careful enough.
My DPO basically told me that since reddit told me (I contacted reddit first as per the GDPR) that I can delete my comments myself I should go ahead and do that, and that my case was closed. Even after telling her that there were still 2 comments visible only when my profile is viewed “signed out”, and I provided a screenshot of a regular browser window where I am signed in and an incognito window where I am not, her reply was that once I delete my account they will not be linked to me in any way so they do not violate the GDPR…
It might not violate GDPR, but there’s still copyright to it. Reddit haven’t provided consideration in exchange for the rights they claim to your comment - access to the website is offered free of charge, regardless of whether you post.
Granted, that’s a different avenue entirely, you’d have to take them to court for selling your work to train AI.
Disappointing on the face of it, but not entirely unexpected. This will be an aggregate effort from members of the community; the next step is to write your local politician and ask why the response from their watchdog was so milquetoast?
Au contraire. If they didn’t delete the information when asked to under the GDPR, and they get caught deleting evidence after a suit was filed (civil by one of us, criminal by the EU), they’re in even bigger trouble. Reddit would have to be very careful to cover their tracks, and they won’t be careful enough.
My DPO basically told me that since reddit told me (I contacted reddit first as per the GDPR) that I can delete my comments myself I should go ahead and do that, and that my case was closed. Even after telling her that there were still 2 comments visible only when my profile is viewed “signed out”, and I provided a screenshot of a regular browser window where I am signed in and an incognito window where I am not, her reply was that once I delete my account they will not be linked to me in any way so they do not violate the GDPR…
It might not violate GDPR, but there’s still copyright to it. Reddit haven’t provided consideration in exchange for the rights they claim to your comment - access to the website is offered free of charge, regardless of whether you post.
Granted, that’s a different avenue entirely, you’d have to take them to court for selling your work to train AI.
Disappointing on the face of it, but not entirely unexpected. This will be an aggregate effort from members of the community; the next step is to write your local politician and ask why the response from their watchdog was so milquetoast?