Dear Katrina,

In my jurisdiction, the only law that requires destruction of records is privacy law. In Russia, personally identifiable information must be destroyed within 30 days from date when all the stated PII processing goals are met. As far as I know, similar legislation exists in Europe.

Hope this helps.

With my best regards,
Natasha

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Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2017 8:46 PM
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Subject: Records Destruction

I work for an engineering consulting company and I was asked to research whether there are any laws which REQUIRE destruction of records - or whether our company could choose to keep all records indefinitely for convenience purposes?  From my research, I understand that records containing PII must be destroyed.  Could anyone comment on the idea of keeping the majority of our records (reports, design and plan sets, specs, etc.) indefinitely?  Would there be any harm in doing so?  Thanks! Katrina

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