[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #43767: Auto Delete Users after a period of time

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#43767: Auto Delete Users after a period of time
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 Reporter:  David 279    |       Owner:  (none)
     Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  assigned
 Priority:  normal       |   Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  General      |     Version:
 Severity:  normal       |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  gdpr         |     Focuses:
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Comment (by David 279):

 Replying to [comment:6 iandunn]:

 > As an alternative, the admin could be periodically presented with a
 report that shows inactive users, and given the chance to prune them,
 similar to how admins are shown that plugins need to be updated.
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 > And of course, it'd be easy to add filters, etc, so that a plugin could
 change the default behavior and turn on automatic deletion/anonymization,
 if that's what the site owner wants.

 That's a workable solution, so long as we have a way of

 a. Recording when each user last logged into the site
 b. Automatically notifying the Admin when users have not logged in after
 an admin determined period of time
 c. The time period needs an over ride when sales are involved again this
 needs an admin defined setting in order to comply with different countries
 laws.

 It may actually be better to instead set a notification date rather than a
 last recorded visit date, you just need a way of comparing dates and only
 changing the notification date when that date would be further away than
 is currently set.

 If this were really useful the sales notification date would take the
 financial year into account, this is because the holding of accounting
 records is typically based on the financial year plus x number of years so
 as an example in the UK the Fiscal Year (for companies) runs from the 1st
 of April until the 31st of March, whilst for individuals tax purposes it
 runs from the 6th of April until the 5th of April the following year, UK
 Accounting law requires records to be kept for 6 years from the end of the
 tax year, so any company sales records between 1st April 2017 and 31st
 March 2018 can all be deleted on the 1st April 2024

 Obviously this sales date setting would probably need the likes of
 woocommerce to write into their code but the ability for the notification
 date to be set via sales or login date needs to be within the core.

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