Privacy regulations are based on a set of core principles — be transparent, minimize data collected, limit its use, and delete it when no longer needed. Yet without clear retention schedules, many organizations treat retention and privacy as separate challenges, creating gaps that weaken compliance, increase risk, and make programs harder to manage.
This session brings together filerskeepers and TrustArc experts to explore how organizations can bridge this gap. We’ll discuss why retention is one of the keys to the backbone of a functioning privacy program, the operational and legal challenges behind “how long to keep data,” and practical approaches to harmonize retention requirements with privacy obligations across complex organizations.
Key takeaways:
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How unclear or inconsistent retention schedules can create gaps in core privacy principles — such as data minimization, purpose limitation, and storage limitation — and practical steps to address them.
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How data minimization, use, and retention/deletion impact user expectations and trust.
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Embedding retention into privacy governance frameworks to build auditable, defensible programs that connect legal reasoning to privacy operations.
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Real-world decisions organizations face when harmonizing retention requirements with privacy obligations across complex environments.
