My view is that Reddit has personally identifiable data but the data that is being licensed to Google, isn’t personally identifiable because the username by itself is insufficient to identify a person, without the additional data that Reddit isn’t passing over.

But I agree I may well be surprised by a DPA decision.

It will reveal the username, not the identity of the author. If I tell you my Reddit username, what do you know about me?

True, however I assume that Reddit is supplying Google with just the text. So, yes Reddit is collecting lots of PII, but that’s not what is going to Google to deduce it - unless you dox yourself in the text.

Not trying to be deliberately argumentative, just thinking this though, much as I dislike Reddit, the case feels weak

While it is clearly a shitty move, it’s not really clear to me that posts on Reddit consist of personally identifying information as protected by the GDPR.

Why wouldn’t the IRS want to get tax returns filed directly from the tax payers,

I’m sure they would but some well-funded lobbyists have decided that excluding the free market would be detrimental to The American Way of Life™️

You’ll have to fill in a form to prove that, I’m afraid :)

Have a good day.

That’s not to do with copying anyone though. It’s just an intrinsic problem with the complexity: “We’re pretty sure we have the information needed to calculate your tax? No worries, we won’t brother you. Affairs are more complicated? We’ll have to ask you for help”

I’m not sure how you drew that conclusion from what I said.

In the UK, I’ve certainly had times when I’ve paid too much and they refunded me.

In the UK, if you are basically employed by one employer with minimal savings, you don’t have to fill in a tax return. As soon as things get a bit more complicated- you are self-employed or have multiple streams of income, you have to fill in a return

…and the UK online form is really good, in my opinion.

Given that I was replying to a message drawing equivalence, you’ll see that I was saying that they weren’t really equivalent, in that Ukraine hadn’t mounted an attack on Russian civilians. Hope that helps.

The two conflicts are not even remotely comparable.

That was largely my point.

If Ukraine had initially launched an attack on Russia and killed 1,200 mainlycivilians, taken 200+ hostages and thrown in a bit of organised gang rape, I doubt Ukraine would be receiving its current level of support, and there may even have been some support for retaliatory action by Russia.

That’s not to say that Israel’s current appalling treatment of Palestinian civilians is justified

A bit of nuance the headline misses:

a striking correlation between users’ engagement in partisan subreddits and the overall toxicity in their comments

You can be politically engaged without treating politics as a knock-about blood-sport.

carefully configured services on your rpi

I have a back up on an SD Card waiting for the day the SD Card fails. Slot it in and reboot

That’s been in the warehouse for 10 years.

Yeh, you say that. But you know they finished Half Life 4 about 2 years ago and are holding it back on purpose

Blimey,

That’s an eye opening article