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Employees in the Dark About Data Retention Policy (betanews.com)
An anonymous reader shares a BetaNews article: A new study reveals that over half of office-based employees say their companies don't have written policies on data retention or personal use of work devices, or if they do, they aren't aware of them. The study conducted by Harris Poll for e-discovery company kCura reveals communication habits that could put organizations at risk of incurring increased data retention and discovery costs in today's increasingly litigious business environment. "Complete bans on the personal use of work devices would be difficult -- if not impossible -- to implement, and could be harmful to employee morale. However, companies do need to implement reasonable policies to mitigate risk," the report adds.
When given 'a stack' to sign, simply write 'didn't read, don't agree' on the signature lines. They _never_ check.
John McAfee 'It was like that time I hired that Bangkok prostitute; to do my taxes, while I fucked my accountant'
They probably don't have those policies and procedures written up because they can't end up having that meeting, or at least one that comes up with a solution. Head Honcho wants everything deleted after 6 months because of possible liablities and reveal. Low down managers don't want anything deleted because they are looking to cover their asses in possible liabilities and reveals. IT states they only have enough of a budget to store everything for one year. Workers point out that many of their projects last longer than one year and even go multiple years and they'll need all that information well past those timelines just to get the job done and support it. Legal is going to pop up and explain that things can be deleted after 6 months, except for these three corner cases they know about where they are legally obligated to hold information for up to ten years to forever, and there might be more such cases, and dependancies due to contracts. By the end of several hours, they have several conflicting policies demanded by different parts of management and half a dozen problems that need to be looked at with legal and economic issues as to why they can or can't adhere to any policy. Eventually, the day long meeting ends with another, similar meeting scheduled in another few months.