Nope! We have policies of regularly deleting data as leftover data can turn into a legal nightmare, especially when it comes to discovery. It’s much easier to point them to the policy of why it isn’t there than to try to compile and give it to them and then potentially have something buried in there. The only thing we keep longer are things legally obligated.
It’s just data until it can be considered evidence. The moment we get a discovery letter, of course we’re legally obligated to preserve the records, but until then it’s just company data and we can do with it whatever we want, including destroying it, otherwise everything in the world is “evidence”
I took a whole class on this in library school–“records management”–and it was kind of fun watching the more archives-focused students wrap their head around getting rid of data/records as soon as legally allowed.
Nope! We have policies of regularly deleting data as leftover data can turn into a legal nightmare, especially when it comes to discovery. It’s much easier to point them to the policy of why it isn’t there than to try to compile and give it to them and then potentially have something buried in there. The only thing we keep longer are things legally obligated.
Gods yes. Destroy that data, per written policy. Who the fuck wants to pay a team of lawyers $500 each to hunt through your data.
Bingo! Then smoke it, automatically and forever.
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It’s just data until it can be considered evidence. The moment we get a discovery letter, of course we’re legally obligated to preserve the records, but until then it’s just company data and we can do with it whatever we want, including destroying it, otherwise everything in the world is “evidence”
I took a whole class on this in library school–“records management”–and it was kind of fun watching the more archives-focused students wrap their head around getting rid of data/records as soon as legally allowed.