We treated GDPR as a legal checklist until the first deletion request landed. Then itWe treated GDPR as a legal checklist until the first deletion request landed. Then it
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We treated GDPR as a legal checklist until the first deletion request landed. Then it was an engineering problem.
What worked was wiring erasure and subject-access flows into the schema itself, plus a data inventory that maps every table to a sub-processor. About two weeks once we stopped treating it as paperwork.
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MD Rafee 's avatar
Wiring erasure flows into the schema from day one is the move. The data inventory approach (every table to a sub-processor) would have saved weeks of manual auditing later. Most teams learn this exactly the same hard way.
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Exactly — and the inventory pays for itself twice. Ours doubled as the Article 30 processing record, so when the first vendor questionnaire landed, the answers were already a query away.
The part nobody warns you about: backups. Erasure in the live schema is the easy half —...
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