Not sure where you've worked by the "data retention policy" at places I worked made it abundantly clear that we were not to be retaining any data unless persona

Not sure where you've worked by the "data retention policy" at places I worked made it abundantly clear that we were not to be retaining any data unless personally ordered to by a court. If a line manager, C-Level executive or board member requested me to retain data, I could refuse it under the policy. Like many things, the retention policy was actually a destruction policy