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by viseztrance 1775 days ago
Control for whom? Before gdpr the general stance in the industry was we never delete user data, just mark a field saying its deleted in the db and that's that. It's been a total shift.

And it's not just that, I've seen first hand that even internal communication about customers are treated with more care as they can legally request all their data.

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Control for bureaucrats is the primary goal.

If there is some temporary marginal privacy benefit for users, it is a side effect.