I think that scenario is adressed on this confulent blog post > Deleting a message from a compacted topic is as simple as writing a new message to the topic wi

I think that scenario is adressed on this confulent blog post > Deleting a message from a compacted topic is as simple as writing a new message to the topic with the key you want to delete and a null value. When compaction runs the message will be deleted forever. Handling GDPR with Apache Kafka: How does a log forget? https://www.confluent.io/blog/handling-gdpr-log-forget/ https://www.confluent.io/blog/handling-gdpr-log-forget/