Privacy Regulations On Record Retention

by Ingi
(BC Canada)

Can you clarify the new regulations pertaining to privacy?

Can you clarify the new regulations pertaining to privacy?

Can you clarify what you meant when you wrote - Re: record retention:

"Pay attention to these record retention requirements and remember to factor in all the new regulations pertaining to privacy ... where keeping too much information and for too long puts you at risk ... not to mention the costs related to storing of the records."

What are the new regulations, and why would it put one at risk?

Thanks.



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Hi Ingi,

When I wrote that, I was referring to incidents of security breach where it was determined some companies were keeping information well beyond legal requirements.

When the breach occurred, customer's privacy was put at risk unnecessarily. If the company had followed data retention guidelines and PIPEDA guidelines, much of the information would not have been available to be breached.

One of YOUR responsibilites under PIPEDA is to identify the reason you are collecting personal information. It is your responsibility to "identify why it is needed and how it will be used".

It is my undertanding that this means you can't collect certain information just because it would be nice to have.

PIPEDA also states that you should "keep personal information only as long as necessary to satisfy the purposes; put guidelines and procedures in place for retaining and destroying personal information; keep personal information used to make a decision about a person for a reasonable time period ... destroy, erase or render anonymous information that is no longer required for an identified purpose or a legal requirement".

If you want more information, the PIPEDA guide titled Privacy Guide for Small Businesses: the Basics can be found under Reports and Publications> OPC Guidance Documents on their site.

Their website - www.priv.gc.ca - also has great checklists and articles for small businesses on:

  • The application of PIPEDA

  • The Privacy Act

  • Identity Theft

  • Personal Information Transferred Across Borders, and much much more.


Hope this helps.

P.S. Gorgeous cat!








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Nov 02, 2011
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by: Ingi

Thanks for your timely answer to my question re: record retention. The siamese cat is my cat Zoe.

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