If data protection lawyers and those with deep knowledge could chime in, even better how GDPR handles these situations.
There are more and more reports coming in that reddit is undeleting comments.
https://mstdn.social/@hkrn/110553743836119207
https://tane.codes/@tanepiper/110553809293213303
https://mastodon.social/@ashe__/110553872844888220
Apart from the disastrous breach of trust it becomes actually physically dangerous for the users. As this comment https://kbin.social/m/reddit/p/448164/-/reply/779118 claims a 7 year old deleted post has been restored.
It could expose deadnames pre-transition, it could have restored erroneously posted content with private information of addresses, passwords and other confidential information.
What is the future legal course to take against this? What steps to take as an affected user, how to actually delete history and is compensation possible especially for these critical incidents?
And how does Lemmy deal with deletion? Because the content gets mirrored between servers I see deletion as problematic, but would at least the biggest federation respect the users request?
God I hope they get sued into oblivion, and I hope that Steve is personally financially set back because of this whole series of events.