April 5, 2023 Virtual Coffee with Consulting: What on Earth is Going on with ChatGPT and What Does it Have to do with IG? ChatGPT is just one of many ventures pushing the boundaries of large language models and AI. The technology is fascinating, but ChatGPT isn’t the only example. And clearly, the sexiness of…
Big buckets have been the trend in recent years, but if they are too big and designed without a sound strategy, unnecessary risks are created for your organization. While everyone wants a simple retention schedule, ignoring necessary exceptions leads to over-retention of records that effectively counteract the benefits of simplicity. The two areas impacting big…
California updated its Government Code as of January 1, 2022. California Government Code Section 12946 increased the retention period for records related to personnel and job applicants to four years. Previously, the minimum retention period for these records was 2 years. The law currently reads: It shall be an unlawful practice for employers, labor organizations,…
Litigation is stressful! Its adversarial, complex, and mistakes can lead to bad outcomes, including penalties and increased costs for your organization. As a Records Management Professional, what can you do to prepare? This joint presentation with the ARMA Triangle and ARMA Madison Chapters aims to introduce some RIM steps and considerations that will make the…
Litigation is stressful! Its adversarial, complex, and mistakes can lead to bad outcomes, including penalties and increased costs for your organization. As a Records Management Professional, what can you do to prepare? This joint webinar with the ARMA Triangle and ARMA Madison Chapters aims to introduce some RIM steps and considerations that will make the…
The Privacy of Information Collected on the Internet From Consumers Act (NPICICA) and Security of Information Maintained by Data Collectors and Other Businesses statute (SIMDC) are Nevada’s two main online consumer privacy laws (together, Nevada’s Privacy Laws). Although lesser-known and considered less comprehensive[1] than the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), Nevada’s Privacy Laws are still…
On August 20, 2021, China adopted the Personal Information Protection Law of the People’s Republic of China (“PIPL”), its first comprehensive national data privacy law and one of the most sweeping and restrictive national privacy laws to date. Modeled largely off the GDPR and set to go into effect on November 1, the PIPL regulates…
With video surveillance becoming less expensive and more widely available, our images are increasingly recorded. But things are not as Orwellian as they seem. Even before drones, dashcams or video doorbells became everyday items, regulators established requirements for video surveillance. How long an entity can retain images depends on several things, including the areas the…
How an organization handles data matters. While records management covers many tenets of data collection, one particular area deserves exploration–privacy: what is it? How is it different from confidentiality? And why does this distinction matter? While privacy and confidentiality may seem interchangeable, both terms refer to different points in the data lifecycle. Let’s start with…
Get ready to roll up your sleeves! In this co-sponsored webinar with ARMA International, we dig into a series of specific examples so you can see, firsthand, how to simplify an overly complicated retention schedule. The webinar considers common pain points and opportunities for retention schedule simplification, including: Addressing common sources of vertical and horizontal…