Anonymizing deleted user data by using REST API

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The section describes the REST API used to anonymize the deleted user accounts. You can use the REST API for anonymizing user accounts in bulk.

About this task

After you delete a user account, you must wait for a minimum of ten minutes to perform anonymization. This is to ensure that the background operations that are related to user account removal is completed before the anonymization.

Procedure

Make a REST call with a list of usernames to the following endpoint:

PUT  /users/anonymize

You can provide the list of user accounts within quotation marks like shown here:

["user1","user2","user3"]

The specified user accounts are anonymized.