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.

  • @[email protected]
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    3911 months 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.

    • @[email protected]
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      2011 months 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

    • @[email protected]
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      611 months ago

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

    • Rolivers
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      411 months ago

      That’s scary af.

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

    • @[email protected]
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      311 months ago

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