No, you can't, because then when the headline reads "FBI probes service selling <whatever touchy subject you had to verify for in the first place>" and you don'

No, you can't, because then when the headline reads "FBI probes service selling <whatever touchy subject you had to verify for in the first place>" and you don't have those records you wind up taking it. And that's before you even start talking about retention laws. There can be a discussion about retention periods and the like but too short a retention period amounts to "trust us bro" in the eyes of some un-feeling government agency who is trying to screw you either at the behest of the law or at the behest of whoever hates you and has their ear. Something needs to be done but "just delete it after you've verified it" is not workable at scale. Yes I know it worked fine for brick and mortar forever. Maybe some acceptable technical solution could be reached, idk.