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Data Protection Legislative Updates

Since the GDPR passed in 2018, we have seen an ongoing worldwide ripple effect, as other jurisdictions have begun passing their own data protection laws that mirror, or in many respects comply with GDPR requirements. Here are a few such new or upcoming laws worth noting:

 

Brazil – General Data Protection Law (LGPD) (Law No. 13,709/2018) – Approved in August 2018, the law originally was supposed to take effect on August 15, 2020. However, due to COVID-19 concerns, the majority of the law will not go into effect until May 2021, with the enforcement of sanctions beginning August 1, 2021....

What’s in Your Privacy Data Policy?

The records and information management world has experienced a gradual yet seismic ideological shift in recent years. Long gone are the days of thinking solely in terms of HOW LONG MUST WE KEEP this information. Today, companies also think strategically, practically, and with privacy legal compliance in mind when it comes to managing their records and information. In this day and age, special considerations such as big data and privacy increasingly drive initiatives. Companies are now asking an equally important question of HOW SOON SHOULD WE DELETE this information, as well as HOW MUST WE DISPOSE OF IT?

Why does...

Policy into Practice — Strategies for Operationalizing Your Records Retention Schedule

If you’ve been in the business of Information Governance for very long you have likely seen many debates or discussions about the best way to do retention scheduling. Common considerations include the ideal size, big buckets vs. small, departmental vs. functional, knowing and applying the appropriate laws, etc. After much time and toil, you may even have created the perfect records retention schedule. You received sign-offs, trained key users, and published it. Congratulations!

One year later, during your planned review, you find few, if any, are actually using it. How could that be? It has the perfect number of categories,...

Alert: New 10-Year Retention Requirements in Brazil for AML Related Activities

Institutions that are regulated by the Central Bank of Brazil take note. Effective July 1, 2020, the Central Bank of Brazil is increasing the record retention periods related to many Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and terrorist financing activities to 10 years. By moving from 5 to 10 years, this change sets Brazil on the high end of the global AML standard. See below for details and action items.

 

Significance of Change
For financial institutions, the AML record retention requirement often impacts and drives the retention period for the “client transactions” and “account” categories of records. Because these categories often contain...

Document Management While Working Remotely

Businesses in the United States and around the world are currently operating in unprecedented times due to COVID-19. Many businesses have had to become innovative and flexible. Possibly one of the biggest changes to how businesses function from day-to-day is the large number of employees working remotely. Remote work is not new, but many businesses have had to figure out how to transition their employees to working remotely. This transition brings many challenges, but one of the challenges that might be overlooked is document management.

 

Regardless of where you work, at home or in an office, it...

Working from Home: Privacy, Security, and Information Management Tips for a Remote Workforce

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The COVID-19 pandemic and “shelter-in-place” orders have upended offices across the country, forcing businesses and workers to rapidly adapt to our new remote work reality. Although lockdown restrictions are gradually easing, remote work is likely to remain a common feature of office life for the foreseeable future. But while working from home brings a new set of challenges and risks for employers and workers, it also presents an opportunity to reflect on how we work and find new ways to improve. Employers...

Russia’s Archives Order – 2020 Updates

If your company does business or has a business presence in Russia, then you may be familiar with Order No. 558 which sets out a list of storage periods for recordkeeping. On December 20, 2019, the Ministry of Justice of Russia approved Order No. 236, Updating the List of Typical Administrative Archival Documents Generated in the Course of Activities of State Bodies, Local Governments and Organizations, With an Indication of Their Storage Time (hereinafter “Archives Order”) which replaces Order No. 558.

If you are not familiar with the Russian Archives Order, it is a “legal act establishing the storage periods...

Using Records Management to Restart

How to Use a Records Management Program to Sustain Business Operations
We are living in unprecedented times. People and businesses worldwide are having to adjust their daily routines and navigate new ways to do business. Consumer spending has drastically declined. International travel is at a standstill. Both small businesses and multinational companies have temporarily shut down, instituted furloughs or layoffs, or quickly restructured to company-wide telecommuting to deal with the new and rapidly changing environment. Whatever position your business currently finds itself in, a records management program can help your business find a way to be productive again.

How...

Pandemics and Personal Data

In light of the COVID-19 (coronavirus) viral disease officially being classified as a pandemic, nations around the world are grappling with how to best manage and prevent further spreading of the disease. One such measure we see being taken, especially in early stages of the fight, is contact tracing, where persons infected with the virus and those they have been in contact with are closely monitored, to help predict and prevent further transmission of the disease.

While contact tracing can be vital to helping control the spread of a disease, it can also raise significant personal data concerns. During this...

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