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The Impact of Data Protection Laws on Your Records Retention Schedule

ARMA International

The purpose of this article is to remove the fear and intimidation of domestic and global data protection laws and show how these laws and requirements are consistent with the existing objectives of your records retention schedule and information governance policy. Definition and Purpose of a Records Retention Schedule.

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

Data Protector

Perhaps this will be a task for the Data Protection Board. 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.

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The Tension between GDPR and Blockchain: Are they Polar Opposites or Can they Co-exist

AIIM

One of the most notable blockchain skeptics – David Gerard –argues that if “you were silly enough to put personal data into an append-only ledger which is a proof-of-work blockchain — that’d be flat-out insane.”. While pseudonymization falls within GDPR protection as such data may be re-identified (i.e.