There are a million reasons to agree that the data is never actually deleted
* need to retain data to fulfill government requests
* internal auditing
* it's all backed up in some "data lake" somewhere to do internal ml or analytics on
* hundreds of copies in database backups from different times
* internal logs that contain the data
* it's already been analyzed and aggregated into learning products and models that aren't going to be recomputed
It's not being "paranoid". As someone who has worked on large scale saas, I say: there is zero, 0, ZERO, 0.00 chance of that data every actually being deleted
* need to retain data to fulfill government requests
* internal auditing
* it's all backed up in some "data lake" somewhere to do internal ml or analytics on
* hundreds of copies in database backups from different times
* internal logs that contain the data
* it's already been analyzed and aggregated into learning products and models that aren't going to be recomputed
It's not being "paranoid". As someone who has worked on large scale saas, I say: there is zero, 0, ZERO, 0.00 chance of that data every actually being deleted