Patent ID: 11899622
Assignee: PAYPAL, INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 19:
20. A machine-readable medium, comprising executable instructions that, when executed by a processor, facilitate performance of operations, comprising:
receiving an erasure request that requests a set of data associated with an entity account be erased from a set of data storage components that stores sets of data associated with entity accounts, comprising the set of data associated with the entity account;
in response to the erasure request, evaluating a set of rules and information associated with the entity account, wherein the set of rules is determined based on a set of legal or contractual obligations associated with the set of data storage components and is related to data erasure and retention, wherein the set of rules comprises a first rule and a second rule, and wherein the information comprises an account activity status and an erasure restriction status associated with the entity account;
based on the evaluating of the first rule of the set of rules and the information associated with the entity account, determining an eligibility status for erasure of a first portion of the set of data from the set of data storage components;
based on the evaluating of the second rule of the set of rules and the information associated with the entity account, determining an ineligibility status for erasure of a second portion of the first portion of the set of data from the set of data storage components;
based on the determined permissibility status, automatically deleting a third portion of the set of data, the third portion comprising all data in the first portion that are not in the second portion;
in response to the deletion of the third portion of the set of data, generating mask data corresponding to the third portion of the set of data; and
replacing the deleted third portion in the group of data storage components with the corresponding mask data, the mask data configured to maintain a validity of a link to the third portion.