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Suggestion
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Resolution: Unresolved
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NOTE: This suggestion is for Confluence Cloud. Using Confluence Server? See the corresponding suggestion.
Deleted pages will go to Trash and remain there until a space admin clicks on Purge.
This behaviour unfortunately may be obscure to some space administrators, plus it can be tedious to maintain manually.
We need to create a function in Confluence to auto purge trash or perhaps create an option of how often the space admin would prefer trash to be purged.
- incorporates
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CONFCLOUD-15026 Purge documents from the trash can as per a scheduled job
- Closed
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CONFCLOUD-30043 Purge trash of all spaces in a global level
- Closed
- is duplicated by
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CONFCLOUD-36075 Empty space trash automatically.
- Closed
- is related to
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CONFSERVER-18160 Allow Confluence to auto purge trash over a period of time
- Closed
GDPR regulations (e.g. https://gdpr.eu/right-to-be-forgotten/) and security concerns indirectly require companies to remove both personal and non-personal data regularly, in order to comply with those. This was addressed and covered by Confluence server and DC editions, however cloud version does not support this.
In real life, most Confluence space admins or users are not that knowledgeable to know that when they delete a page, it actually isn't really deleted and they need to request space or Confluence admins to purge the trash. This means that they may in good faith belive that they comply with the regulations, when actually they do not.
Confluence admins should be responsible for higher level configuration, where retention rules could govern this, thus increasing security and privacy for all. I hope Atlassian will acknowledge how serious the lack of this feature is and implement it ASAP.