It’s the regulation. I work on EU GDPR tech stuff currently (this stuff is HOT at the moment and I have a feeling that even many large companies are quite late

It’s the regulation. I work on EU GDPR tech stuff currently (this stuff is HOT at the moment and I have a feeling that even many large companies are quite late on the train!) in financial services sector and while some data needs to be kept for x years according to the law anyway, rest really needs to be deleted and at least my current client really doesn’t want to play with the financial risks involved with getting caught in a possible EU GDPR compliance audit.