What gets lost in all of this is that a company is not required to archive any of this information if its official data retention policy is to not retain data. Furthermore, if a company wants to retain data for some period of time, that time period can be short at which time the data needs to be destroyed in a timely and consistant manner. Where companies get into trouble is when they either have no data retention policy or they have one that they do not follow. - A lawyer

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