I did not know that. Especially the part about destroying incriminating evidence.
Thank you for the excellent info.
To be sure - you can’t delete the information on request IF a court case is already pending/court has ordered the data held. But you can bet that any suave politician will scrub his data before starting the campaign and the investigations ensue.
In my company we’ve set it up so the data is replaced by an ID tag and that tag is in the audit logs. But that only shows that joe schmo had data in the system and when we deleted such data on request but NOT what the data was.
The Wayback Machine has always responsed to take down requests which is why Joy Reid’s web pages showing she’s a homophobe are now gone.