A WEEKLY NEWSLETTER ON DATA PRIVACY
I'm Daniel. I'm a technology director and certified data protection officer based in Amman, Jordan. Most professional development on data privacy is a workshop you don't have time for. This is the version that fits in your inbox. Once a week, on what your tools are doing with your data.
THIS WEEK · MICRO PD 010 · MAY 27
The data you were supposed to delete this summer
On data retention policies, and the gap between writing one and running one.
When you map a school's data, you go system by system and ask the same three questions. What's in here. Why. On what basis. A few years ago I did this for a school, and the admissions platform stopped me. Applications going back more than ten years. Families who enrolled, families who were turned down, families who chose somewhere else. All still there. I asked the obvious question. Why do we still have this?
The answer was the one you already know. We've always kept it.
Issue 010 is about why nobody ever decided to keep it, and why that's the more dangerous answer.