>their own privacy team told me they are bound by regulatory obligations to retain data even after you request deletion They have to retain data about the pers

>their own privacy team told me they are bound by regulatory obligations to retain data even after you request deletion They have to retain data about the person who requested the deletion which seems eminently reasonable. In the future if you sue them because you can't access your account that you paid for, they have a record that you requested said account's deletion. Similarly they obviously can't withdraw your data from the anonymized research projects they pursued.