Data retention

There are a number of factors that must be considered when determining how long you need to hold on to data, writes Angela Madden

Angela Madden, managing director, RITS Information Services

If you cast your mind back to the first part of this series, the first step to approaching GDPR was to identify all of your personal data and where it was located. As part of this discovery exercise, we also mentioned that you should determine what the business purpose for having the data in the first place is and also how long the data is kept for.

In terms of data retention, typically ...