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Re:Soft deletion probably isn't worth it by pmontra on Wednesday July 20, 2022 @01:11AM (#32161674)
Last month I had to implement customer deletion on a new project I started working on recently. The basics were: anonymize the user personal data, delete subscriptions, keep anything else. I believe that payments and invoices are not stored in that database so I don't know what happens to them but in general you must not delete that kind of data because GDPR notwithstanding the law requires that they are available for inspection for a long time. Of course they cannot be anonymized in a way that cannot be reversed. Being able to connect them with a trail of operations in the main database is probably useful too. So, soft delete.

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