r/gdpr
24k members
r/gdpr is a subreddit with 24k members. The most common kinds of discussions are advice requests and pain & anger, and the community frequently discusses gdpr, privacy, compliance, ai, and data.
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) went into effect 25 May 2018. Ask questions about the GDPR, discuss and share resources about the GDPR, and learn about best-practices regarding personal data and data privacy. Related laws like ePrivacy or UK GDPR are also in scope.
Popular Themes in r/gdpr
#1
Advice Requests
: "EU deals gave us GDPR homework"
17 posts
#2
Pain & Anger
: "Website requiring an ID suddenly to delete account.."
10 posts
#3
Solution Requests
: "Redacting GDPR-sensitive info from hundreds of documents, any way to automate this?"
6 posts
#4
Self-Promotion
: "My desire to have GDPR Compliant Analytics on my sites led to this little project, LibreCounter: free, libre, open source analytics, no installation or configuration required."
2 posts
#5
News
: "Finland just became the first EU country to activate full AI Act enforcement. Didn't see much coverage of this."
2 posts
#6
Opportunities
: "Opportunity as data privacy consultant"
1 post
Popular Topics in r/gdpr
#1
Gdpr
: "Amazon’s Project Starfish scraped my store despite Gdpr opt-out - 50 violations documented [Evidence + ICO complaint filed]. Odds on they are scraping you too"
179 posts
#2
Privacy
: "NOYB Analysis of "Digital Omnibus" Proposals for EU GDPR and ePrivacy Changes"
38 posts
#3
Compliance
: "What does GDPR Compliance look like for a mid sized startup?"
25 posts
#4
Ai
: "Finland just became the first EU country to activate full Ai Act enforcement. Didn't see much coverage of this."
20 posts
#5
Data
: "I requested deletion of all my Data from OpenAI, here is what they didn't delete. Is it legal?"
18 posts
#6
Consent
: "Employer has shared my personal email address details with a 3rd Party training provider without my Consent."
11 posts
#7
Cookie
: "Are Cookie walls like this legal?"
10 posts
#8
: "Employer has shared my personal Email address details with a 3rd Party training provider without my consent."
10 posts
#9
Personal Data
: "I built a free Chrome extension that stops you from accidentally sharing Personal Data with ChatGPT/Claude. Everything processed locally, nothing leaves your browser"
10 posts
#10
Sar
: "Employee data subject access request"
9 posts
Flair Used in r/gdpr
#1
Question - General
: "Redacting GDPR-sensitive info from hundreds of documents, any way to automate this?"
60 posts
#2
EU 🇪🇺
: "Germany blocks EU “Chat Control” – a big win for digital privacy! 🇩🇪"
57 posts
#3
UK 🇬🇧
: "Amazon’s Project Starfish scraped my store despite GDPR opt-out - 50 violations documented [Evidence + ICO complaint filed]. Odds on they are scraping you too"
53 posts
#4
Analysis
: "NOYB Analysis of "Digital Omnibus" Proposals for EU GDPR and ePrivacy Changes"
8 posts
#5
Question - Data Subject
: "Are cookie walls like this legal?"
7 posts
#6
Question - Data Controller
: "We did a risk assessment and found like 30+ tools storing customer data we didn’t even officially onboard"
6 posts
#7
News
: "Overview of leaked internal drafts of amendments to the GDPR and ePrivacy"
5 posts
#8
Meta
: "Getting Meta to delete your data"
2 posts
#9
Resource
: "My desire to have GDPR Compliant Analytics on my sites led to this little project, LibreCounter: free, libre, open source analytics, no installation or configuration required."
2 posts
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+5k members(26.2%)
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Last updated: June 17, 2026