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summary: API for deleting user & room account_data
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created: 2016-07-17 21:33:17.0
creator: neb
description: |-
  Submitted by @matthew:matrix.org
  We seem to have deliberately avoided to specify a DELETE for account_data. Unsure why (possibly to simplify the /sync responses when it disappears?), but it's not ideal that as a result empty account_data objects start to stack up where people try to delete them
id: '12754'
key: SPEC-431
number: '431'
priority: '4'
project: '10001'
reporter: neb
status: '1'
type: '1'
updated: 2016-10-28 16:28:39.0
votes: '0'
watches: '2'
workflowId: '12854'
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actions:
- author: richvdh
  body: Yeah. We'll need synapse to support it first, of course...
  created: 2016-07-18 11:50:26.0
  id: '13063'
  issue: '12754'
  type: comment
  updateauthor: richvdh
  updated: 2016-07-18 11:50:26.0
- author: richvdh
  body: 'Migrated to github: https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/issues/692'
  created: 2016-10-28 16:28:39.0
  id: '13501'
  issue: '12754'
  type: comment
  updateauthor: richvdh
  updated: 2016-10-28 16:28:39.0