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Data retention and deletion compliance
Check that data has retention rules and that deletion keeps up.
Privacy & data protectionHow it's worked out
- Past retention = records older than their rule ÷ records held
- Counts from the records of processing and system queries
NoteData kept past its purpose is risk with no value. Fix systems with no rule before tuning the rest.
Source: GDPR Art. 5(1)(e) storage limitation; DPDP Act 2023 s. 8(7); ISO/IEC 27701
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