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For a lot of industries, deleting internal communication is illegal. For any publicly traded company in the US, all internal communication needs to be archived
by selectodude 7y ago
For a lot of industries, deleting internal communication is illegal. For any publicly traded company in the US, all internal communication needs to be archived for five years.
- quanticle 7y agoAnd it's equally emphasized, at many of those organizations, that all communication older than 5 years is deleted. Nobody wants to be burned by an ill-considered statement made in a decade-old IM conversation.
- rsanek 7y agoDo you have a source for this? I couldn't find anything regarding the 5 year time frame. I did find [0] which references a few different retention periods, especially at 7 years. [0] https://www.intradyn.com/email-retention-laws/ https://www.intradyn.com/email-retention-laws/
- bradly 7y agoIt's part of SOX. It actually requires the data be unencrypted, immutable, and available offline. Most corporations (large and small) do not follow this for email, messaging, wikis and many other services.