公开(公告)号：US20220188439A1

公开(公告)日：2022-06-16

申请号：US17123694

申请日：2020-12-16

Applicant: Stripe, Inc.

Inventor： Ryan Drapeau ,  Andrew Bullen

IPC: G06F21/62 ,  G06F21/54 ,  G06F21/64 ,  G06F21/31

Abstract: A method and apparatus for hard deletion of user data are described. The method may include receiving a request from a user computer system to delete user data. The method may also include determining a unique user identifier associated by a system with a user making the request. The method may also include determining whether a data partition, in which data generated by a job or subsystem of the computer system is stored, is predicted to contain a record having the unique user identifier. Then, the method may include searching, when the data partition is predicted to contain a record having the unique user identifier, data records stored in the data partition for a user data record based on the unique identifier, and performing a hard deletion of the user data record from the partition when found during the searching.