Add retention policy knowledge to the privacy domain

Two articles covering retention policies for extension-owned tables,
the gap that lets high-volume log tables grow unbounded:

- register-owned-log-tables-for-retention-policies: an extension's own
  log tables must be added to the allowed-tables list from install AND
  upgrade code, guarded by IsAllowedTable plus an upgrade tag, with a
  mandatory minimum retention where audit needs one.
- ship-a-default-retention-policy-setup: registration only makes a table
  selectable; nothing is deleted until a Retention Policy Setup record
  exists, so ship one (disabled by default) as the platform's own
  Retention Policy Installer does.

Each ships good/bad AL samples. Claims verified against the BC admin
docs and the Retention Policy module in microsoft/BCApps.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_011gvTjm746MtJEVWeRTbG46
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codeunit 50563 "Contoso Activity Log Cleanup"
{
Access = Internal;
// The log table is never added to the allowed tables, so it cannot appear
// on the Retention Policies page. Cleanup is hard-coded here instead:
// the period is not configurable, the deletion is not written to the
// Retention Policy Log, and an administrator cannot switch it off.
trigger OnRun()
var
ContosoActivityLog: Record "Contoso Activity Log";
begin
ContosoActivityLog.SetFilter(
SystemCreatedAt, '<%1', CreateDateTime(CalcDate('<-30D>', Today()), 0T));
ContosoActivityLog.DeleteAll();
end;
}