• phoneymouse@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Do you mean at the OS level? A lot of services do soft deletes. It is in part because hard deletes can be risky and create referential integrity errors.

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      2 months ago

      No. I mean at the database level for web applications.

      The end user presses delete, and we toggle Archived.

      I’ve raised concerns about GDPR for this but been assured this is standard procedure as they do anonymise user information after a period of time and some our apps are children centered, like music lessons and such and apparently that data is kept longer for safeguarding.