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Deleting my Twitter account and data - Twitter not complying with GDPR (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by DocSportello@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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I filed a GDPR deletion request with Twitter a couple of weeks ago. It was quite a challenge to find a way to contact Twitter (for anyone who wants to you can do so via: https://secure.ethicspoint.com/domain/en/default_reporter.asp) - but I finally succeded. I did not simply wanted to deactivate my account I want all of my data to be deleted as is my right through the GDPR.

A couple of weeks later I received message saying that my account had been deactivated and that I should not log in as this my halt the deletion. Today (one and half months later) I tried logging into Twitter and found out that my login email is still registered).

I filed a new complained but wanted to know if anybody here has had their data successfully deleted? Twitter makes it deliberately hard to do so and this might be a violation of the GDPR.

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[-] CosmicTurtle@lemmy.world 55 points 1 year ago

There was a story how one guy recorded himself deleting each and every comment he made. The video was like 2-3 hours long. Manually one by one. Only to find that they restored his comments the next day.

How reddit hasn't been sued by the California attorney general I'll never know.

[-] Squizzy@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago

This is about Twitter though

[-] CosmicTurtle@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

What I was implying is that I don't know how useful the laws are if they aren't going to be enforced and if the penalty for breaking the law is a slap on the wrist.

[-] MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That was an accident with restored backups though.

[-] SirQuackTheDuck@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

For reddit you can use Redact, it can edit the comments for you, they don't seem to revert those changes.

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