Comment by cube00
2 hours ago
Retention and legal holds: Data can still be deleted even if a retention policy or legal hold is in place, unless licensing or billing is restored first. Do not rely on holds alone to protect unlicensed data.
Surprising it doesn't automatically move into an admin or company lawyer's drive so it can be dealt with rather then a few notifications which will probably be missed and the data permanently deleted.
Don’t worry, you have ~30 days, that should be enough for you to audit your entire org. /s
That number has no connection to the actual system.