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Synchronizing Legal Hold Requirements With Consumer Requests for Data Deletion

By Mike Hamilton
July 01, 2020

The biggest challenge with any legal hold process is ensuring that potentially relevant data is actually preserved. There are myriad routes you can take to ensure defensible preservation of data, starting with the following three options:

  1. Preservation by Legal Hold
  2. Preservation by In-Place Preservation (aka, locking down data in place)
  3. Preservation by Collection

But with evolving requirements for how data is managed by new data privacy laws like the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), it's become harder to secure data by simply sending a legal hold and assuming the custodian will do their duty to preserve it.

Data Privacy Laws Pose New Risks to Defensible Preservation Practices

Key features of the CCPA and GDPR grant consumers and employees unprecedented rights — including the right to request to know what data a business holds on them and ask that it be deleted. But what if that data requested under these regulations is already required to be saved under a legal hold?

Obviously, deleting data that is this potentially relevant to anticipated or pending litigation (civil or criminal) can have devastating consequences. Therefore, it's imperative that e-discovery professionals collaborate with their privacy colleagues on processes for harmonizing their organizational legal hold obligations with these conflicting data privacy regulations.

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