When you delete a conversation in Claude, it disappears from your view right away, but Anthropic's systems retain it for up to 30 more days before it is fully deleted.
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The policy states that deleted conversations remain on Anthropic's back-end systems for up to 30 days after user-initiated deletion, meaning personal data in those conversations is not immediately eliminated from all Anthropic systems.
Severity downgraded from medium to low, and the provision was narrowed to focus only on conversation deletion (removing the general deletion rights language).
View full change record →Users who delete conversations to remove personal data should be aware that the policy provides for up to 30 days of continued back-end retention following deletion, during which the data remains in Anthropic's systems.
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"You also are able to delete individual conversations, which will be removed immediately from your conversation history and automatically deleted from our back-end within 30 days.Excerpt from Anthropic's Privacy Policy (Superseded Capture)
(1) REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: This provision engages GDPR Article 17 (right to erasure) and the requirement that erasure be completed without undue delay, enforced by EU supervisory authorities; CCPA deletion rights; and LGPD equivalent deletion provisions.
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The policy states that deleted conversations remain on Anthropic's back-end systems for up to 30 days after user-initiated deletion, meaning personal data in those conversations is not immediately eliminated from all Anthropic systems.
Users who delete conversations to remove personal data should be aware that the policy provides for up to 30 days of continued back-end retention following deletion, during which the data remains in Anthropic's systems.
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