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Synchronizing Legal Hold Requirements With Consumer Requests for Data Deletion

The biggest challenge with any legal hold process is ensuring that potentially relevant data is actually preserved. But with evolving requirements for how data is managed by new data privacy laws like the CCPA and the GDPR, it's become harder to secure data by simply sending a legal hold and assuming the custodian will do their duty to preserve it.

5 minute read July 01, 2020 at 01:27 AM
By
Mike Hamilton
Synchronizing Legal Hold Requirements With Consumer Requests for Data Deletion

The biggest challenge with any legal hold process is ensuring that potentially relevant data is actually preserved. There are myriad routes you can take to ensure defensible preservation of data, starting with the following three options:

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