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by logicfiction 1140 days ago
The 30 days part is most likely a legal compliance bit to cover their asses if their backing data systems ever take a big dump.

They need to use an asynchronous system to be tracking when your chat becomes "finished" and then likely queue it up to a system looking to propagate deletes. They have to choose some kind of SLA on that and probably went with a common data privacy user data deletion window of 30 days.