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by delusional 1429 days ago
They might like to, but you should definitely consider if saving data no longer required for your business violates privacy regulation/ethical considerations.
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Definitely. When a user "deletes" their account, we null out all identifying fields to "DELETED_PII_$user_id". We have running metrics we compute that would go off the rails if we dropped the row completely.