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by falcolas 3506 days ago
From personal experience as a DBA: the effort usually consists of not deleting rows out of the database. The expense is a few cents a month for gigabytes of data.

Worst case scenario, the companies will simply set up a separate data warehouse style data store, and make it available to anyone who wants it internally. If we as consumers are lucky, they will scrub the data of PII before moving it to the data warehouse.
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tunap 3506 days ago
Worst case scenario must include if they find a market for the data, similarl to the recent AT&T revelations.

Pick your source:

https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=at%26t+data+government...

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dx034 3506 days ago
They will probably put it in some archive where they delete it after 10 years. Or they keep it somewhere on a drive where it could be accessed but will never be, since no one has a reason to use the data.
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