Fun fact: this is bullshit. Large companies, especially public ones and those doing business with the government, follow different sets of rules specifying ret

Fun fact: this is bullshit. Large companies, especially public ones and those doing business with the government, follow different sets of rules specifying retention times. For anything that has an impact on accounting, the minimum is usually 5 years. If you’re trying to get an FAA approval for anything that flies, it’s much longer. Bonus: the 180 days mentioned above is for third party service providers as the cutoff of considering information to be “in transit”. Is has absolutely no bearing on in-house systems which have first-party protection.