# Completely remove user data from the system

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**Tags:** rails-console\
**Created:** [June 5, 2024, 8:54am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/completely-remove-user-data-from-the-system/310629 "2024-06-05T08:54:04Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 5, 2024, 8:52pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/completely-remove-user-data-from-the-system/310629/5 "2024-06-05T20:52:35Z")

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> [@Crius](#):
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> we might have to prove that we don’t hold any copy of the user information on our system

If you have a user request for deletion of all their data, that won’t necessarily include all of their posts/replies as you probably know anonymization can be enough for GDPR given the posts don’t include highly personal information.

There have been a lot of topics about that here, the laws vary for every country.

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