Here's a mid-thought observation that will optimize retention by what data implies: even if you don't collect sensitive data directly, you may be able to infer it from other data (e.g., watch history can infer health conditions, political views). Your IPTV panel needs retention by inference risk (what can be deduced). An IPTV panel with inference-based retention analyzes what can be inferred from retained data—high-inference-risk data (can infer health, politics, religion) retained shorter (30 days), medium-inference-risk data (can infer income, location) retained medium (1 year), low-inference-risk data (can infer nothing sensitive) retained longer (7 years)—turning a uniform retention policy into an inference-optimized system. For an IPTV reseller UK, inference-based retention is especially valuable because UK data protection law considers inferred data as personal data—and keeping data that allows inference of sensitive attributes is as risky as keeping the sensitive attributes themselves. A real example that protected customer privacy: a reseller in London found that watch history could infer political affiliation (watching political news). He set high-inference-risk watch history retention to 30 days. After 30 days, the data was aggregated to remove political inference (e.g., "watched news" instead of "watched Labour party coverage"). The ICO approved. The pattern that keeps showing up is that resellers with inference-based retention protect sensitive inferences, while resellers without it keep inferable data too long. What actually works is checking whether your current IPTV reseller panel can: analyze inference risk of retained data, set retention by inference level, automatically delete or aggregate high-inference-risk data sooner, and generate inference-based retention reports. Most operators find that basic panels have no inference tracking, mid-tier panels have one retention for all data regardless of inference risk, and great panels have inference-based retention with automated risk assessment and aggregation. Honestly, the best IPTV reseller UK operators also use "inference-based retention review" quarterly—reassessing inference risk because a data point that was low-risk last quarter (watching news) might be high-risk this quarter (election season), and the data you keep too long is the data that reveals secrets. Your IPTV panel should protect what can be inferred, because inferred secrets are still secrets—and secrets must be protected.