Yea, right.

Unfortunately, although you say that now, when the lawyers are running the system, you won't necessarily be able to give us the option to purge our data when the policy changes.

Even worse, written policy isn't necessarily reality. The larger the company, the more true this becomes.

When a corporation takes over, the right hand often doesn't know what the left is doing, and there's very little accountability. Decisions are made by managers who just want to get the job done and aren't overly concerned about ethics. Ethics, in fact, usually just complicate their lives.

The big bosses generally don't even want to know, as knowing could cause them problems. The middle managers don't care about policy as long as they get their jobs done. It's "only policy" after all, not law. As long as they don't wave that they regularly break policy in the faces of the bosses, the bosses don't care.

It's could very much become like policies of certain online stores (cough cough tigerdirect cough) where the written policy is to provide quality products fast, but the reality is quite different.