Does your law specify that deleting an account must perform the full data deletion? GDPR doesn’t, one needs to manually request the procedure via email or postcard. Iirc, they are in fact forced to maintain personal data for X years in case the user requests it.
Kind of. Yes you really should make an Art.17 request to ensure having a strong GDPR case in the event of non-compliance, but technically there is still an Art.5 data minimization rule that applies to data that is no longer needed for performance of the contract.
There are several reasons why the data should still be kept even with art. 5, if for whatever reason legal entities need to contact you for something that you posted long ago that was archived somewhere else, reddit must keep your contact info, albeit just that, in the spirit of art. 5.
Now, if they are allowed to use that contact info to send you promotional content? I don’t think so. Furthermore, this mal has been sent to accounts that had more than X comment karma, and having that info stored still would breach the data minimozation clause, so idk. I wouldn’t try to sue them in these grounds though.
Automatic emails have revealed so many LGPD violations with my accounts too (LGPD is the Brazilian version of GDPR).
That’s cool, had Brasil mirrored any other EU legislation too?
Does your law specify that deleting an account must perform the full data deletion? GDPR doesn’t, one needs to manually request the procedure via email or postcard. Iirc, they are in fact forced to maintain personal data for X years in case the user requests it.
Kind of. Yes you really should make an Art.17 request to ensure having a strong GDPR case in the event of non-compliance, but technically there is still an Art.5 data minimization rule that applies to data that is no longer needed for performance of the contract.
There are several reasons why the data should still be kept even with art. 5, if for whatever reason legal entities need to contact you for something that you posted long ago that was archived somewhere else, reddit must keep your contact info, albeit just that, in the spirit of art. 5.
Now, if they are allowed to use that contact info to send you promotional content? I don’t think so. Furthermore, this mal has been sent to accounts that had more than X comment karma, and having that info stored still would breach the data minimozation clause, so idk. I wouldn’t try to sue them in these grounds though.
So cool to hear that Brazil has a GDPR equivalent. That (and the fact that Bolsanaro got booted) makes me want to live there.
Embarrassing that the US can’t get on the ball with this.