Reddit, like many companies, relies on having an automated system to process DSARs. You make a request and it shits out a zip file with some data in text formats like XML. Unfortunately that data is incomplete, and doesn't cover anything that isn't available by simply looking at your account page. You also can't get it if the account has been deleted.

Unfortunately the UK's regulator is useless, so legal action is the only way to get this stuff resolved.

Yeah, but at least if I prevail they will have to compensate me for their asshole techbro policies.

I created a throwaway account, as is normal practice on Reddit when you want to ask something without it being tied to your main account, and it was quickly perma banned, and a 7 day ban applied to my main account.

I submitted a DSAR under GDPR rules, and like DF5JT I just got some truncated crap and none of the information I actually wanted.

Currently going through legal action with Reddit over this. In their initial defence they admitted that the ban was automated, and when I appealed a human looked at it and confirmed it. The ban was for being a bot, which obviously I'm not, so they admitted they made a mistake that really human review should have fixed. It appears that they also deleted the data that I asked for, which is a fairly severe GDPR violation. On top of that, they tried to gaslight me about it, for example by showing fake login errors and a fake password reset process, in order to supposedly access the DSAR data, when in fact they had already deleted both the account and data.

Currently waiting for mediation to be scheduled, basically a 1 hour phone session where an intermediary tries to see if there is a way we can settle without it getting to court. Given they have admitted they screwed up, and have deleted the data I asked for, and seem to have a policy of abusing users who submit a DSAR...

That is bad. As an engineer I'd probably want to make the plants able to handle them though, because you can't rely on people not throwing them in the bin.

Ideally there would be some way to recover them. Maybe a recycling scheme where people can collect a small amount for them could work, although these days I think a lot of people are too busy to bother with it for only tens of pennies.

Are you just complaining about the EU having a legally binding goal and giving member states time to get to it, or are you trying to use it as an excuse for the US to do nothing? Less than nothing really, you are paying billions of USD to stop wind farms being built and ramp up pollution from fossil fuels.

Ah, I see. It's really bad that all those perfectly usable batteries are being thrown away, let alone the rest of the electronics.

On the legal side, it's very likely that if the prompt was benign then the company providing AI as a service would be liable.

If it's running locally then it's not clear, but probably the user would be responsible for failing to properly supervise and limit what the AI could do.

Regional restrictions. Google won't let me install some apps I need when travelling, but I can install them just fine from Aptoide, or via Obtainium.

Did they have internet access? TFA isn't clear, but it could be that they were on a VPN connected to MoD systems and the pings just bounced off the firewall.

Sounds like the contractor just used off-the-shelf cameras and they do periodic checks for firmware updates or cloud storage or something. No conspiracy, just a failure to properly specify and then audit the hardware.

What was the vape bill? I know a lot of them use rechargable batteries, but are disposable.

Other people are going to be using the same tools to find the same bugs. We really have to do it because Linux is critical infrastructure.

Simultaneous release on streaming? 2 weeks to streaming?

A big part of it is making things easier to sort and recycle. Packaging should be made entirely of recycled cardboard if possible, so it can all be thrown in the waste paper bin. No need for foam inside.

Similarly plastic bottles should have labels designed to be removed by machines. They have them in Japan, with the label only glued in one vertical strip in one place. I'm not sure exactly how they do it, maybe it's a solvent or maybe it's mechanical, like rubber wheels that tear it off (removal by hand is easy enough). Anyway, once the different plastics are separated the bottles can be recycled, and the bottle part will be clear PET with no dyes to make things easier. In fact I think they re-use some bottles by just relabelling them, but I'm not sure how they check them first.

Thanks for sharing this. Currently in a similar dispute with Reddit, and it's heading to court. Well, there is mandatory mediation first, but I have no idea if Reddit will engage.

They screwed up their defence already, but anything can happen on the day. Hopefully they settle. I have a feeling they would rather just pay me than complete the SAR, because they don't want to reveal how their gaslighting system works.

A lot of these bugs are security related. Even if there isn't an obvious path to exploitation right now, being in the kernel means that they might be useful as part of a chain later on.