Systems and methods for hard deletion of data across systems

A non-transitory computer readable storage medium including instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform operations for hard deletion of user data, the operations comprising:

• receiving, at a computer system, a request from a user computer system to delete user data;
• determining, by the computer system, a unique user identifier associated by the computer system with a user making the request;
• determining, by the computer system, 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;
• searching, by the computer system 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, by the computer system, a hard deletion of the user data record from the partition when found during the searching.

A system for hard deletion of user data, comprising:

• a memory;
• and
• a processor coupled with the memory configured to:
• receive a request from a user computer system to delete user data,
• determine a unique user identifier associated by the system with a user making the request,
• determine whether a data partition, in which data generated by a job or subsystem of the system is stored, is predicted to contain a record having the unique user identifier,
• search, 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
• perform a hard deletion of the user data record from the partition when found during the searching.