Deleting an account, a guardian deleting a managed profile, and "Delete
all data" were final the moment they were confirmed: the account row
cascaded into every table and every stored copy, and the off-host objects
were purged in the same breath. Nothing short of rolling the whole
instance back could return one account.
ACCOUNT_DELETION_GRACE_DAYS (14 by default, at most 30, 0 erases at once
as before) now sets a window:
- Account and managed-profile deletion lock the account (migration 0488:
deletion_requested_at, deletion_purge_at, deletion_requested_by_id).
Every session, refresh token, API token, connector, share link and
step-up elevation is revoked in the same transaction, and the record,
its stored copies and its off-host objects are left as they are.
- Sign-in is refused with 403 auth.account.deletion_pending and the
erasure date, after the credential was proved and before a second
factor is asked for. The session and Bearer resolvers and the acting-
account resolver refuse a pending account too, so a credential minted
in the moment before the lock is useless.
- POST /api/admin/users/{id}/undo-deletion (cookie-only, audit-logged)
clears the lock. The admin users list reports the pending state.
- The hourly account-deletion-purge job erases accounts whose window has
ended, exactly as the immediate deletion did, with the off-host purge
request committed alongside. The Guardian invariant is decided again;
a refused erasure stays pending and is reported.
- A wipe first stores the whole record as a PRE_WIPE_<ms> copy through
the writer the weekly copy uses, keeps it out of the wipe, and holds
its off-host purge back with a new not_before on the request. The
ordinary restore brings the record back; restoring that copy withdraws
the held purge. The purge job deletes the copy when its window ends.
Background work skips accounts pending deletion through one shared
predicate (src/lib/account-deletion/active-account.ts): every reminder,
digest, Coach, sync, backfill, rollup, score and backup enumeration
filters with it, and account-deletion-enumeration-guard.test.ts fails on
a query in background work that neither filters nor says why it need
not. Notification delivery and the AI capability loader refuse a pending
account as chokepoints behind it, and the Withings, WHOOP and Telegram
webhooks and the notification quick actions ignore one.
The privacy summary publishes the window. Two pieces of the reminder tick
and the off-host pass moved into modules of their own to keep the files
inside their size ratchet.
The privacy dashboard re-implemented the audit-retention resolver with its own
default and its own floor. Two implementations of one disclosure, quoted to the
same person on two pages and by the purge job; it uses the shared resolver now.
The record-content branch in the settings gate matched a classification rather
than a page, so a second manage-writable destination would have rendered the
allergy and family-history managers under its own heading without anybody
choosing that. It resolves through a slug map, and the contract test fails if
the map and the classification disagree in either direction — a destination
cannot join the kind without somebody deciding what it renders.
The managed-profile nav filter assumed a guardian grant is always manage. It is
today, which is why the check was easy to leave out; an entry below that level
would have listed destinations the gate refuses.
Interpolation used a replacement string, and String.replace reads $&, $`, $',
$1 and $$ out of one. A display name containing $' rewrote the sentence around
it — and display names land in exactly the sentences that say who did what in
somebody's health record. A replacer function has no $ grammar at all, which
removes the class rather than escaping the members of it somebody thought of.
Bring the scattered data-sovereignty controls into one /settings/privacy pane.
It assembles already-shipped pieces rather than rebuilding them: the encryption-
at-rest summary and configured retention windows (read from the server so the
copy stays truthful), links to the export surfaces (including the passphrase-
encrypted option) and the account-deletion / data-reset surface, the active-
session list, trusted devices, and the security-activity log. The backup↔
deletion lag is disclosed honestly — deletion is immediate, but encrypted
off-host backups still hold the data until they roll off retention.
Marc-André Bombeck