[majormajor]

But why believe that when their policy says any of it may not be true, or could change at any time?

Even if the CEO believes it right now, what if the team responsible for the automatic-deletion merely did a soft-delete instead of a hard delete "just in case we want to use it for something else one day"?

[BorisMelnik]

I dont believe that for one second. I can think of many examples of times CEO's have said things publicly that were not or ended up being not true!