Data protection legislation

Whoever saves must also delete

The European General Data Protection Regulation (EU GDPR) requires companies to provide an unprecedented level of transparency and documentation when processing personal data.

The new regulation goes far beyond audit-proof storage and protection against unauthorized access. Rather, companies must know and be able to prove at any time, virtually at the touch of a button, for what purpose personal data is stored and processed, where, how and by whom. They must be able to intervene in these processes at any time, for example to comply with their comprehensive obligations to provide information to the supervisory authorities, but above all to the people behind the data. Whereas in the past, data had to be collected as comprehensively as possible and stored securely, today the data records to be stored must be minimized and, if necessary, deleted in a targeted manner, despite the need for archiving and backups. This applies not only to data, but also to documents containing personal data. However, legacy systems and archives only offer such options to a very limited extent. A great deal of manual effort and specialist know-how is required to adapt them. And the alternative, migration to more modern systems, is also time-consuming and costly. sw

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