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> If a user requires to be deleted, you have to delete everything, there can be no trace of their existence.

False. Transaction data must be kept for legal reasons and deletion requests do not apply to it.

Yep, that might be true for certain industries.

But logs don't count as the transactional data that needs to be kept for legal reasons.

That depends entirely on what they're logging and why.

There are always time limits that apply, which means you need to have a process to delete the relevant log entries (or the whole log) eventually.