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No, nothing that I've ever come across says you have to save and store peoples' personal information. If you have it, then you have to abide for legal requests
by epi0Bauqu 16y ago
No, nothing that I've ever come across says you have to save and store peoples' personal information. If you have it, then you have to abide for legal requests for it, but if you don't have it, you don't have it.
- dschobel 16y agoAs a caveat, I remember some techno-illiterate judge ruling that having the data in memory constituted a record with the implication that by not persisting the record/document you were intentionally destroying it. I'll try to find the link. edit: found it A federal judge in Los Angeles last week ruled (PDF) that a computer server's RAM, or random-access memory, is a tangible document that can be stored and must be turned over in a lawsuit. http://www.zdnet.com.au/us-ruling-makes-server-ram-a-document-339278641.htm http://www.zdnet.com.au/us-ruling-makes-server-ram-a-documen...
- cletus 16y agoThis case was appealed in 2009. The Ninth Circuit did not directly address the issue but, reading this summary, it appears the district court's ruling wasn't quite as shocking as the headlines portrayed. See http://lctjournal.washington.edu/vol5/a23Hall.html http://lctjournal.washington.edu/vol5/a23Hall.html