So, update time:

Yesterday, we informed you about announced changes to the reddit user privacy policy that we believe to be in violation of european law on data protection (GDPR).

We raised this issue publicly on r/europe and several national subreddits did the same, we also raised it internally with manager level employees of Reddit. As a result, we received an invitation to a zoom call to discuss the issue.

Participants of the meeting included mods of r/europe, r/de, r/greece and r/slovenia on the "user" side and four spokepersons from Reddit. We raised our concerns about GDPR-compliance, the loss of control for our users and other negative consequences of the changes (plus other data protection issues including cookies, ToS and other things).

Reddit's team seemed willing to listen to our complaints and agreed to re-evaluate the changes, whilst postponing the planned implementation that was supposed to happen this week. The issues discussed were profound, and some of them needed a more in-depth conversation. Reddit's Team admitted to ineffective communication regarding their announcement; hence there was a proposal to a follow-up meeting to further update on these issues. In the meantime, we declared that anything below an opt-out would not be acceptable for our communities.

We were promised a follow-up meeting from their side and will follow their updates on this issue. We will keep you updated.

We are happy to hear from you!