Apparently so. It’s impressive how it took them 1 month+ to come up with this from their “Legal Team”.

Oh, so we all got the same bs copy pasted response at the same time? Mine took over a month, so I’m referring it to ICO.

It was great. Unfortunately I only found out about it around 1 month prior to the API news, so I didn't have much time to use it.

Vote in what exactly? I’m lost.

Anyone else unable to update to 0.19/0.20? I’m on 0.18.2 and the updates aren’t showing.

Isn't this bypassed by clicking "More info" and the "Run" button appears?

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My car has this, but a car I’ve recently rented didn’t. It was fun pulling up to the gas pump having no idea what side the tank was on and noticing there wasn’t any arrows.

Reddit's Privacy Policy and User Agreement apply to you either way, so I'd assume you'd be able to make a request based on that. Due to the EU's GDPR regulations, most companies make their policies GDPR-compliant, meaning fewer variations, less work, and better consumer protections.

Surely this is wrong? If the content I posted is not deleted and it still shows as being made from my account, it traces back to me, so it should be deleted if I requested so. In addition to this, would you apply the same logic to private messages? With or without your name or username, if you send a message to someone and cancel or delete it, no one should be able to recover it unless you consent to it.

Let's go more in depth now. According to the UK's Data Protection Act 2018 (GDPR) and EU's Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (General Data Protection Regulation):

Examples of Personal Data (excluding the most obvious ones): (here and here)

• race
• ethnic background
• political opinions
• religious beliefs
• trade union membership
• genetics
• biometrics (where used for identification)
• health
• sex life or orientation

Processing Meaning: (here)

Processing covers a wide range of operations performed on personal data, including by manual or automated means. It includes the collection, recording, organisation, structuring, storage, adaptation or alteration, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination or otherwise making available, alignment or combination, restriction, erasure or destruction of personal data.

Examples of processing include:

posting/putting a photo of a person on a website;

With this in mind, you can no longer only be identified by your username (in case it says "Deleted"), you could potentially be identified by your post's content (and post history). If consent is withdrawn and you wish that the company stops processing your data, the company must comply (here).

With the heat Reddit is taking, and probably the wave of complaints that's about to happen, I'm eager to see what's going to be the regulator's response.

This, first day was just a quick learning curve. I feel like I can navigate lemmy better now.
Also, lemmy looks more promising in the long run. Let's say spez goes back and even makes the API FOC (impossible). He'll still plan some major bs in the future.
The whole lying and now insinuating users would attack employees over a logo is just too far. He showed no love for the community nor for the contributors of reddit's success.

Unless lemmy is dead, I won't be returning to reddit.