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How Long Should I Keep This Business Record For?

AIIM

This is perhaps one of the most-asked questions in all of records management. Too often I hear one of two, equally bad answers: Keep Records for Seven years: This seems to be the de facto answer, especially for financial services records. How Long to Keep Your Business Records - It Depends.

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Missing the GDPR deadline of May 2018: And then what?

Data Protector

First, in the area of records management, the GDOR requires organisations to actually know what records containing persona data they have and where they are. After all, the ICO has been focusing on the need for effective records management for years. Of course not. Here are just two examples.

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What (currently ignored) privacy area might result in early enforcement action when the GDPR is in force?

Data Protector

If I were a privacy regulator, I would focus on records management and, in particular, the greatly ignored area of records retention. So many organisations find it hard to develop, let alone implement, comprehensive records retention policies. I think not. Perhaps this will be a task for the Data Protection Board.

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Impact of IDP on Business Growth – Customer Onboarding Use Case

Info Source

They acquire, classify, and convert unstructured and semi-structured information into enhanced usable data for use in business transactions, analytics, records management, discovery, and compliance applications. This translates into reduced manual process steps, reduced time spent by knowledge workers, and of course, reduced costs.