Selecting the right initial project(s), determining outcomes and measures, and preparing the business case are important groundwork for your Information Governance initiative, as discussed in Part 1. But to secure resilient management support for an ongoing initiative, you’ll also want to tie the individual projects to strategic objectives for Information Governance at your organization.
Management support is crucial for success with Information Governance initiatives. This is not merely a question of initial project and budget approvals. Most Information Governance initiatives involve behavioral changes in how data is handled, and in many instances, aspects of organizational culture may be impacted. No matter the ultimate benefits, any initiative involving behavioral change
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In the real world, what to do has never been as impactful as why to do it. For the 2020s, the newest impetus for managing information retention and disposal is crystal clear – data privacy and security compliance
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We’re witnessing a “rapid, unscheduled disassembly” (thanks SpaceX) of comprehensive consumer privacy laws across the United States. While these new state laws generally have a different, sleeker structure than California’s CCPA/CPRA, they share a similar impact – each such law incents covered businesses to delete unnecessary data.
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Last month California finalized its updated regulations under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA). With the CPRA, California has upped the ante on requiring data retention schedules and disposal of unnecessary data.
As always, to fully appreciate where we are, we need to remember from where
Illinois court rules that failure to establish a biometric data retention schedule is an actionable BIPA violation. What may this mean for other states’ privacy laws that require data minimization and storage limitation policies?
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We’ve already seen how new FTC regulations for GLBA-regulated financial institutions require retention schedules and disposal of unnecessary data as essential data security controls. The FTC is now also taking that position for all businesses under Section 5 of the FTC Act, as seen in a slew of recent FTC data security enforcement actions.
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The FTC has updated its data security regulations for the financial institutions it regulates under the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA). The FTC’s revised requirements for information security programs, effective June 1, 2023, will now mandate data retention policies and disposal of unnecessary customer information.
To appreciate what this means, we must take a quick look at
Two years ago I made a prediction: “For the 2020s, the dots already connect clearly – the new impetus for managing information retention and disposal will be data privacy and security compliance. Buckle up.”
This was the last line of a 2021 blog series exploring then-recent developments in United States’ data privacy and security