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2 months agoThere are two main types of data retention policy:
- Retain everything to protect the company when the staff do something dodgy.
- Delete everything to protect management when management do something dodgy.
It’s a little more nuanced than that, of course, but in broad strokes that’s how I’ve seen it play out. Does the company want to pin the blame on somebody or shrug and say “we have no idea how that can have happened, guess we need to forget about it.”
That was my first thought as well. I thought I’d try the first 10 minutes to get a sense of it.
Anyway, four hours later…