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Reddit beats film industry, won’t have to identify users who admitted torrenting::Court quashes subpoena for names of users who talked torrenting in 2011 thread.

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[-] Blamemeta@lemmy.world 31 points 1 year ago

They don't have names, so Im not sure what they expect.

[-] madjo@geddit.social 40 points 1 year ago

Actually, if one uses the official Reddit app, they do have real names. It’s part of the data that the app reads out of your phone’s settings.

[-] TORFdot0@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago

The official app didn’t exist in 2011 so they likely don’t have that information unless the user kept their account and used the official app at one point

[-] inspxtr@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

has anyone made a data request, especially GDPR, to confirm this?

[-] Buffalox@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

The only place I have my name, is in "emergency information". Are you saying apps can access that?

[-] Rolive@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 year ago

That's scary af.

I would not want my reddit or lemmy name be hard tied to my real name.

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

And now people are just starting to realize what real issue with the official reddit app is.

[-] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

All these inputs apps have free-reign over need to become part of the explicit privacy settings.

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