Cyber Security Law & Practice
The Impact of the GDPR on the Retention of Personal Data
September 2016
Finding the right balance between business needs and privacy rights is an even more important compliance issue because the General Data Protection Regulation (‘GDPR’) directly and indirectly requires businesses to limit the collection and storage of personal data. In this article, William Long and Vishnu Shankar discuss the likely impact of the GDPR on retention and storage of EU-originating personal data.
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