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Thirty Day Deletion of All Contact Identifiers

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Medium Jun 19, 2026

The updated policy states that Medium and its vendors may scan, analyze, and review your content, messages, AI interactions, and associated metadata. Data sharing now explicitly includes information you submitted or posted through the service, extending beyond infrastructure support to machine learning model training and improvement. The policy does not indicate an opt-out mechanism or granular user control over this specific use of content.

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Clause Stability Stable

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3
Months Monitored
Jul 10, 2026
First Seen
Jul 10, 2026
Last Seen
This clause type exists across 1629 other provisions on other platforms.

How other platforms handle this

Grindr Medium

If you decide to delete your Profile, it will no longer be visible to other Grindr users and your personal information will generally be deleted within 28 days.

Fireworks AI Medium

If you delete your account, we aim to delete your personal information from our servers within 30 days.

Webull Medium

search engines and other third-parties may still retain copies of your public information, such as any posts and comments you made in the Webull Community, even after you have deleted the information from the Services...

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We delete all encrypted identifiers within 30 days.

Excerpt from Medium's Privacy Policy

Applicable regulations

CCPA/CPRA
California, USA
GDPR
European Union
Indiana Consumer Data Protection Act
US-IN
UK GDPR
United Kingdom

Provision details

Document information
Document
Medium Privacy Policy
Entity
Medium
Document last updated
May 5, 2026
Tracking information
First tracked
July 9, 2026
Last verified
July 9, 2026
Record ID
CA-P-036019
Document ID
CA-D-00246
Evidence Provenance
Source URL
Wayback Machine
Content hash (SHA-256)
e130408799d47ec7cc19cd4b7dfb170a92948a0979f65deae988281c66c5510b
Analysis generated
July 9, 2026 06:40 UTC
Methodology
Evidence
✓ Snapshot stored   ✓ Hash verified
Citation Record
Entity: Medium
Document: Medium Privacy Policy
Record ID: CA-P-036019
Captured: 2026-07-09 06:40:42 UTC
SHA-256: e130408799d47ec7…
URL: https://conductatlas.com/platform/medium/medium-privacy-policy/provision/CA-P-036019/thirty-day-deletion-of-all-contact-identifiers/
Accessed: Aug. 2, 2026
Permanent archival reference. Stable identifier suitable for legal filings, compliance documentation, and research citation.
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Frequently Asked Questions

What does Medium's Thirty Day Deletion of All Contact Identifiers clause do?

The clause states: “We delete all encrypted identifiers within 30 days.”

How many platforms have this type of clause?

ConductAtlas has identified this type of provision across 274 platforms. See the full comparison.

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