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NIST Privacy Framework, Control-PCT.DM-P5
Data are destroyed according to policy.NIST Privacy Framework, version 1.0, January 2020, CT.DM-P5
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Comprehensive regime
25 laws, 25 jurisdictions| Jurisdiction | Law | What it asks, as read here |
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| Data Protection Act, 2013 |
Do not keep personal data longer than necessary for the purpose it was collected for, and destroy or permanently delete it once that purpose has lapsed. |
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| Ley 25.326, Ley de Protección de los Datos Personales |
As a military, security, police, or intelligence body, limit consent-free processing of personal data for defense or public-security purposes to what your legally assigned mission strictly requires, keep the resulting files specific and classified by reliability, and cancel police-purpose data once it is no longer needed for the inquiry that justified it. As a data-processing service provider acting for another party, use the personal data only for the purpose stated in the service contract, do not disclose it to others, and destroy it once the contracted service ends unless further engagements are reasonably expected, in which case you may keep it securely for up to two years. +2 more |
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| Lei Geral de Proteção de Dados Pessoais (LGPD) |
Delete personal data once processing ends, unless retention is needed to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation, for research with anonymization where possible, for an authorized transfer, or for your own exclusive anonymized use. |
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| British Columbia | Personal Information Protection Act, comprehensive regime |
Destroy documents containing personal information, or remove the means by which it can be associated with particular individuals, as soon as it is reasonable to assume that the purpose of collection is no longer served and retention is no longer necessary for legal or business purposes. |
| Law No. 151 of 2020 Promulgating the Personal Data Protection Law |
Delete Personal Data once the purpose it was collected for is satisfied, or hold it in a form that does not allow the Data Subject to be identified, and correct any error immediately on being told of it or becoming aware of it. |
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| Data Protection Act, 2022 (Act No. 5 of 2022) |
Destroy, delete or de-identify a record of personal information as soon as reasonably practicable after you are no longer authorised to retain it, in a manner that prevents its reconstruction. |
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| Personal Data Protection Proclamation |
Destroy personal data as soon as is reasonably practicable once the purpose for storing it has lapsed, in a manner that prevents its reconstruction in an intelligible form, and tell any data processor holding the data to do the same. |
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| General Data Protection Regulation, Principles Relating to Processing of Personal Data and Accountability (Article 5) |
Keep personal data in a form which permits identification of data subjects for no longer than is necessary for the purposes for which it is processed, storage limitation; store it for longer only insofar as it will be processed solely for archiving purposes in the public interest, scientific or historical research purposes or statistical purposes in accordance with Article 89(1), subject to the technical and organizational measures the Regulation requires to safeguard the rights and freedoms of the data subject (Article 5(1), point (e)). |
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| Act on the Protection of Privacy in Working Life, Sections 15 to 17, Genetic Testing and Camera Surveillance of Employees |
Destroy recordings as soon as they are no longer needed for the purpose of the surveillance and at the latest one year after the recording ends, subject to the exceptions in Section 17, paragraph 3 (Section 17, paragraph 3). |
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| Data Protection Act, 2011 (Act No. 5 of 2012) |
Destroy, delete or de-identify a record of personal information as soon as reasonably practicable after you are no longer authorised to retain it, in a manner that prevents its reconstruction. |
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| Ley Federal de Protección de Datos Personales en Posesión de los Particulares (LFPDPPP) |
Delete personal data relating to a contractual default once seventy-two months have passed from the date the default occurred, and otherwise suppress personal data, after any blocking period, once it is no longer necessary for the purposes stated in the privacy notice. |
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| Loi sur la Protection des Données Personnelles |
Get the Minister of State's prior authorisation before installing a video surveillance system in a place open to the public or filming a public way, and do not keep recorded images for more than 30 days. |
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| Law on Personal Data Protection (LPDP), video surveillance |
Store video surveillance recordings for no longer than 30 days unless another law sets a longer period with its own safeguards, and remove, at your own expense, any camera installed contrary to this Law. |
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| Ley 29733, Ley de Protección de Datos Personales |
As a processor handling personal data under contract for a third party, use it only for the purpose the contract states, do not transfer it to anyone else, and delete it once the contract is performed unless the data bank's owner authorized retaining it against a likely further engagement. |
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| Law relating to the Protection of Personal Data and Privacy |
Retain personal data only until the purpose of processing is fulfilled unless a listed ground extends retention, and destroy it in a manner that prevents reconstruction once the retention period ends. |
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| Data Protection Act, 2018 from a date not yet set |
Do not keep personal data longer than the purpose requires, and take reasonable steps to destroy or permanently delete it once no longer needed. |
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| Data Protection Act |
Destroy personal data as soon as reasonably practicable once the purpose for holding it has lapsed. |
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| Draft Law on Personal Data Protection (2026 reform) proposed |
Under the draft, a controller operating video surveillance may keep footage for no longer than six months, and may not monitor employees' work absent narrow exceptions. |
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| Protection of Personal Information Act 4 of 2013 (POPIA) |
Do not retain a record of personal information longer than the purpose for which it was collected requires, and destroy, delete, or de-identify it as soon as reasonably practicable once you are no longer authorised to keep it. |
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| Draft Law on the Protection of Privacy and Personal Data (Ontwerpwet Bescherming Privacy en Persoonsgegevens) proposed |
Do not keep personal data in a form that identifies a data subject for longer than the processing purposes require. |
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| Law No. 12 of 2024 on Protection of Electronic Personal Data |
Erase personal data once the purpose for holding it lapses, unless a lawful reason permits retention, in which case keep it in a form that no longer identifies the data subject. |
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| Privacy Act 2025, comprehensive personal information protection regime from a date not yet set |
Do not retain personal information longer than the purpose requires, and once retention is no longer necessary, return, destroy, render inaccessible or permanently de-identify it within a reasonable time. |
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| Organic Act on the Protection of Personal Data |
Destroy personal data once its declared or authorized retention period expires, its purpose is achieved, or it is no longer useful to your activity, by a bailiff's report made with an INPDP-appointed expert. |
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| Data Protection and Privacy Act, 2019, comprehensive personal-data regime |
Retain personal data no longer than necessary for the purpose collected, and destroy, delete or de-identify it at the expiry of the retention period in a manner that prevents its reconstruction. |
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| Data Protection Act, 2021, personal data processing framework |
Tell a data subject of the right to withdraw consent before they give it, present the request separately from other matters in clear and plain language, be able to prove the consent was given, and destroy immediately every piece of personal data collected after a withdrawal. |
Security baseline statutes
22 laws, 22 jurisdictions| Jurisdiction | Law | What it asks, as read here |
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| Data Breach Notification Act, reasonable security measures and disposal of records |
Take reasonable measures to dispose, or arrange for the disposal, of records containing sensitive personally identifying information within its custody or control once the records are no longer to be retained, by shredding, erasing, or otherwise modifying the information to make it unreadable or undecipherable through any reasonable means consistent with industry standards. |
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| Alaska Personal Information Protection Act, disposal of records duty |
When disposing of records containing personal information, take all reasonable measures necessary to protect against unauthorized access to or use of the records, including burning, pulverizing, or shredding paper documents and destroying or erasing electronic and nonpaper media so the personal information cannot practicably be read or reconstructed. Adopt written policies and procedures relating to the adequate destruction and proper disposal of records containing personal information. |
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| Discarding and disposing of records containing personal identifying information |
Redact that personal identifying information, or destroy the paper record or document, before discarding or disposing of it. This duty reaches paper records and documents only; it states no separate duty over electronic data. |
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| Disposal of personal identifying information, written policy duty |
Develop a written policy for the destruction or proper disposal of paper and electronic documents containing personal identifying information, and, once those documents are no longer needed, destroy or arrange for their destruction by shredding, erasing, or otherwise modifying the personal identifying information to make it unreadable or indecipherable. |
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| Protection of Social Security Numbers and Personal Information Act, safeguarding and destruction duty |
Safeguard the data, computer files and documents containing that personal information from misuse by third parties, and destroy, erase or make them unreadable before disposal. |
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| Florida Information Protection Act, data security and disposal duty |
Take all reasonable measures to dispose, or arrange for the disposal, of customer records containing personal information within your custody or control once the records are no longer to be retained, by shredding, erasing, or otherwise modifying the personal information to make it unreadable or undecipherable through any means. |
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| Disposal of records containing personal information |
Shred the record, erase the personal information, modify the record to make the personal information unreadable, or take other action you reasonably believe will ensure that no unauthorized person will have access to the personal information, before discarding or disposing of a customer's record. Personal information here is personally identifiable data about a customer's medical condition, account or credit balance, information supplied on opening an account or applying for credit, or a tax return, combined with an identifier such as a Social Security number, driver identification number, or date of birth. |
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| Destruction of Personal Information Records |
Take reasonable measures to protect against unauthorized access to or use of personal information in connection with or after its disposal. Implement and monitor compliance with policies and procedures that require papers containing personal information to be burned, pulverized, recycled, or shredded, and electronic or other nonpaper media containing personal information to be destroyed or erased, so the information cannot practicably be read or reconstructed. +1 more |
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| Personal Information Protection Act, safe disposal of personal information |
Dispose of paper records containing personal information by redacting, burning, pulverizing, or shredding them, and destroy or erase electronic media containing personal information, so the information cannot practicably be read or reconstructed. |
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| Disclosure of Security Breach Act, data base owner's duty to maintain reasonable security procedures and dispose of records |
Do not dispose of or abandon records or documents containing unencrypted and unredacted personal information of Indiana residents without shredding, incinerating, mutilating, erasing, or otherwise rendering the information illegible or unusable. |
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| Kansas Consumer Protection Act, reasonable security and records-destruction duty for holders of personal information |
Unless a federal law or regulation requires otherwise, destroy or arrange for the destruction of records containing personal information once you no longer intend to maintain or possess them, by shredding, erasing, or otherwise rendering the personal information unreadable or undecipherable. |
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| Database Security Breach Notification Law, reasonable security procedures and destruction duty |
Take all reasonable steps to destroy or arrange for the destruction of records containing personal information no longer to be retained, by shredding, erasing, or otherwise modifying the information to make it unreadable or undecipherable. |
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| Maryland Personal Information Protection Act (MPIPA), safeguards and secure-disposal duty |
When destroying a customer's, an employee's, or a former employee's records containing personal information, take reasonable steps to protect against unauthorized access to or use of that information, weighing the sensitivity of the records, the size of the business, the cost of different destruction methods, and available technology. |
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| Identity Theft Protection Act, destruction of data no longer needed |
Destroy, or arrange for the destruction of, any data containing personal information about an individual once that data is removed from the database and is not being retained elsewhere for a purpose state or federal law does not prohibit; retaining the data for an investigation, audit, or internal review does not violate this duty. Destroy the data by shredding, erasing, or otherwise modifying it so it cannot be read, deciphered, or reconstructed through generally available means. |
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| Impediment of Identity Theft, record destruction duty |
Take all reasonable steps to destroy, or arrange for the destruction of, a customer's records containing personal information once they are no longer necessary to be retained, by shredding, erasing, or otherwise modifying the personal information in those records to make it unreadable or undecipherable. |
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| Identity Theft Prevention Act, methods of destruction of customer records |
Destroy, or arrange for the destruction of, a customer's records containing personal information once they are no longer retained, by shredding, erasing, or otherwise modifying the personal information to make it unreadable, undecipherable, or non-reconstructable through generally available means. |
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| Data Breach Notification Act, security and disposal duties |
Arrange for proper disposal, shredding, erasing, or otherwise rendering the information unreadable or undecipherable, of records containing personal identifying information once they are no longer reasonably needed for business purposes. |
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| Identity Theft Protection Act, destruction of personal information records |
Take reasonable measures to protect against unauthorized access to or use of personal information in connection with or after its disposal: burn, pulverize, or shred paper records, and destroy or erase electronic and other nonpaper media, so the information cannot practicably be read or reconstructed, under written policies that describe the destruction procedure and are monitored for compliance. |
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| Identity Theft Protection Act of 2015, risk-based information security program |
Do not retain personal information longer than reasonably required to provide the requested services, meet the purpose for which it was collected, or comply with a written retention policy or a legal requirement; destroy it securely, for example by shredding, pulverization, incineration, or erasure, regardless of the medium it is stored in. |
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| Identity Theft Enforcement and Protection Act, business duty to protect sensitive personal information |
Destroy or arrange for the destruction of customer records containing sensitive personal information no longer to be retained, by shredding, erasing, or otherwise modifying the information to make it unreadable or indecipherable through any means. |
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| Protection of Personal Information Act, reasonable procedures and records-destruction duty |
Destroy, or arrange for the destruction of, records containing personal information that are not to be retained, by the method the section specifies. |
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| Document Safe Destruction Act, safe destruction of records containing personal information |
Take all reasonable steps to destroy or arrange for the destruction of a customer's records containing personal information once the business no longer retains them, by shredding, erasing or otherwise modifying the information to make it unreadable or indecipherable through any means. An entity in the business of disposing of personal financial information on another business's behalf must implement and monitor policies and procedures that protect against unauthorized access to or use of the information during and after its collection, transportation and disposal. |
Adult content age verification (AV)
15 laws, 14 jurisdictions| Jurisdiction | Law | What it asks, as read here |
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| HB164, age verification for material harmful to minors |
Do not retain identifying information after access is granted. |
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| HB2112, internet pornography, minors, age verification |
Do not retain identifying information. |
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| SB 351 (2024), commercial entity age verification for material harmful to minors |
Do not retain identifying information after access is granted. |
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| SB 17 (2024), age verification for adult oriented websites |
Do not retain a user's identifying information after verification. |
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| HF 864, age verification for websites and apps pornographic for minors |
Do not retain, sell, or disseminate identifying information. |
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| Act 440 (HB 142), age verification for material harmful to minors |
Do not retain any identifying information of the individual after access has been granted to the material; this binds a third party that performs the age verification as well. |
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| HB 1839 (HCS HBs 1839, 2921 and 3015), Age Verification on Adult Websites |
The third party that performs the age verification must not retain any identifying information of the individual. |
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| SB 544, Revise Internet Laws Related to Material Harmful to Minors |
Do not retain identifying information after verification. |
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| HB 8, Pornography Age Verification Enforcement (PAVE) Act |
Do not retain identifying information after access is granted. |
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| HB 1561, age verification for sexual material harmful to minors |
Do not retain identifying information after access is granted; this binds a third party performing verification as well. |
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| SB 2380, age verification for sexual material harmful to minors (companion to HB 1561) |
Do not retain identifying information after access is granted. |
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| SB 1959, age verification for material harmful to minors |
Do not retain a user's identifying information after access is granted. |
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| HB 1053 (2025), age verification for websites containing material harmful to minors |
Do not sell or retain identifying information collected in age verification; the law bars verifiers from doing either. |
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| Protect Tennessee Minors Act (SB 1792/HB 1614, 2024 Tenn. Pub. Acts ch. 1021) |
Do not retain personally identifying information. |
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| HB 1181 (2023), age verification for material harmful to minors |
Do not retain any identifying information of the individual whose age you verify; a third party that performs the age verification is bound the same way. |
Interception and recording consent
8 laws, 8 jurisdictions| Jurisdiction | Law | What it asks, as read here |
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| Act of 30 July 2018, Article 10/1, Recording of Electronic Communications in Lawful Commercial Transactions |
Erase those recordings and traffic data at the latest at the end of the period during which the transaction can be challenged in court. If you listen to or record communications and traffic data solely to monitor the quality of service in a call center, inform the people who work there beforehand of the possibility of listening and recording, the precise purpose and the retention period, and keep the data for one month at most. |
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| Electronic Communications Act, Articles 246 and 247, Confidentiality of Communications and Recording |
Keep a recording no longer than the period in which it can be used to prove the commercial transaction (Article 247, paragraph 2). |
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| Temporary Derogation for Detecting Online Child Sexual Abuse in Messaging Services |
Store the content data and related traffic data processed for these purposes, and the personal data generated through that processing, in a secure manner and solely for the purposes Article 3(1), point (h), lists once suspected online child sexual abuse has been identified, and no longer than strictly necessary for those purposes and in any event no longer than 12 months from the date of the identification of the suspected online child sexual abuse (Article 3(1), points (h) and (i)). |
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| Illinois Eavesdropping Article, Interception and Civil Remedies (720 ILCS 5/14-2 as rewritten by Public Act 98-1142) |
If your business monitors or records employees' marketing, opinion research or telephone solicitation calls (including order-taking, customer assistance and credit collection calls) under the one-party exemption, use it only for service quality control, training or internal research, never furnish or divulge the recordings to law enforcement or any third party, stop and destroy any recording of an unrelated call, give employees notice including prominent workplace signage, and provide personal-only lines that are not monitored. |
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| Electronic Communications Law, Article 73(1) to (3), Confidentiality of Communications and Recording in Business Practice |
Before you record information and related traffic data in lawful business practice to provide evidence of a commercial or other business transaction that may have legal consequences, inform the users of the recording and its purpose, and keep the recorded content and traffic data no longer than the period during which the transaction can be legally challenged. |
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| Act of 30 May 2005, Article 4(1) to (3), Confidentiality of Communications and Recording in Professional Practice |
If you record communications and the related traffic data in lawful professional practice to provide proof of a commercial transaction or other commercial communication, inform the parties beforehand that recordings may be made, why, and for how long they will be kept at most, and delete the recordings as soon as the purpose is achieved and in any event when the legal period for challenging the transaction expires. |
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| Wiretapping and Electronic Surveillance Control Act, Interception, Consent Exception and Civil Action |
If you record telephone marketing or customer service communications for training, quality control or monitoring, have one party's consent, use the recordings only for training or quality control, and destroy them within one year unless federal or State law requires otherwise. |
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| Electronic Communications Act (ZEKom-2), Article 214, Confidentiality of Communications and Recording |
Delete a recorded message immediately, and at the latest when the time in which the transaction can lawfully be challenged runs out (article 214, paragraph 7). |
Sensitive categories
7 laws, 7 jurisdictions| Jurisdiction | Law | What it asks, as read here |
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| Act of 30 July 2018 Article 10/1, Recorded Commercial Communications |
Inform both parties of a call or communication recording, its precise purposes, and its storage period before recording it for proof of a commercial transaction with a person in Belgium, and erase the data once the transaction can no longer be challenged in court. Limit a call-centre quality-monitoring recording to a maximum one-month retention, with prior information to staff, under Act Article 10/1 paragraph 2. |
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| AB 1159 (2026), student personal information (KOPIPA, ELPIPA and the Higher Education Student Information Protection Act) from , in 7 weeks |
Retain covered information only as long as reasonably necessary for the purpose it was collected, and keep a written data retention policy, available on request to a pupil, parent, guardian, education rights holder or K-12 personnel, stating the purposes, the retention purpose and a deletion timeframe (Section 22584(d)(4), (5)). |
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| Anti-Money-Laundering Regulation, Special Categories and Criminal Offence Data Processed by Obliged Entities (Articles 76 and 77(3)) from , in 8 months |
Delete personal data upon expiry of the five-year retention period of Article 77(3), without prejudice to retention periods for data collected for the purposes of other Union legal acts or national law complying with Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (Article 77(3)). |
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| Health Data Use Act (GDNG) Sections 1 and 6 to 9, Secondary Use and Protection of Health Data |
If you operate a health care facility that further processes health data it stores lawfully under GDPR Article 9(2)(h) or (i) for quality assurance, patient safety, research or statistics, pseudonymize the data, anonymize it as soon as the purpose allows, and delete it no later than 30 years after the further processing began (GDNG Section 6, paragraph 1). |
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| Personal Data Protection Law, sensitive personal data and biometric data |
An app that processes biometric data about an individual in Jordan, including a faceprint or voiceprint, must treat it as Sensitive Personal Data and obtain consent or rely on one of the Law's enumerated exceptions, and must not retain it beyond the processing purpose unless legislation specifies otherwise. Whether Jordan requires a heightened, explicit-consent standard specifically for biometric processing, beyond ordinary consent, is not confirmed. |
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| Personal Data Protection Law, sensitive data categories and processing |
An app that derives a faceprint, voiceprint, or other identity-linked biometric identifier from an individual in Saudi Arabia, for any purpose the purpose-based Sensitive Data definition would reach, must obtain the Data Subject's explicit consent before processing it, and must destroy it once the processing purpose is fulfilled or consent is withdrawn. |
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| Genetic Data Privacy Act, definitions, consent, and consumer rights |
Honor a consumer's revocation of consent and destroy their biological sample within 30 days. |
Social media and minors
6 laws, 6 jurisdictions| Jurisdiction | Law | What it asks, as read here |
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| Act 952 of 2025 (HB1717), Arkansas Children and Teens' Online Privacy Protection Act |
Do not retain a child's or teen's personal information longer than is reasonably necessary to fulfill a transaction or provide a service the child or teen requested, except as required for the safety or integrity of the service or specifically authorized by law. |
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| SB 5 (2026), An Act Concerning Online Safety, social media protections for minors from , in 14 months |
Delete age determination data. |
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| HB 3 (2024), social media use for minors |
Terminate and permanently delete accounts that do not comply, including accounts your own analytics flag as likely belonging to a minor. |
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| Online Safety Act 2025, Child Protection Code, social-media age verification |
Collect only personal data that is adequate, relevant and necessary for age verification, and do not keep it longer than necessary for that process, consistently with the Personal Data Protection Act 2010. |
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| S.2581 as amended by the House (text of H.5349), An Act to promote student learning and mental health proposed |
Terminate and delete existing accounts of users under 14 by . |
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| Amended COPPA Rule (2025) |
Meet the expanded recordkeeping requirements and data retention limits. |
Age-appropriate design code
5 laws, 5 jurisdictions| Jurisdiction | Law | What it asks, as read here |
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| Children's Online Privacy Code (Privacy Act 1988, section 26GC) proposed |
Use proportionate age assurance, and limit how long you retain facial age estimation data. |
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| AB 2246 (2026), Online Services, Products, or Features Likely to be Accessed by Children from , in 7 weeks |
Do not retain personal information collected to estimate age for any other purpose or longer than necessary to estimate age; age assurance must be proportionate to the risks and data practices of the service. |
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| Government Regulation No. 17 of 2025 on Child Protection in Electronic Systems |
Process age-verification data only for that purpose and delete it once the purpose is fulfilled, subject to any statutory retention duty; protect the privacy and personal data of users, particularly children. |
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| A4015/S3413, New Jersey Kids Code Act from , in 10 months |
If you collect personal data to verify a user's age, use it for nothing else and delete it not later than 15 days after verifying the age. |
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| S4609A/A6549A Stop Online Predators Act, enacted as the Safe by Design Act (FY2027 budget, S9008-C part Y) from , in 7 weeks |
Determine whether a user is a minor through age assurance, never self-declaration of age, using the methods the Attorney General's rules accept; where those rules are not in effect, use a reasonable method that guards against circumvention, minimizes the retention of the information collected, and is offered alongside at least one other method, one of which does not rely on government issued identification or lets the user stay anonymous to the operator. |
Biometric privacy
4 laws, 4 jurisdictions| Jurisdiction | Law | What it asks, as read here |
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| Law on Personal Data, biometric data enumeration and general processing conditions |
An app that captures or stores a facial image, voiceprint (sound fragment and its acoustic parameters in the Act's own term), or other biometric identifier from a person in Azerbaijan is still bound by this Act's ordinary processing conditions, a lawful basis under Art. 9.6 and destruction under Art. 9.4 once the purpose is achieved, even though Azerbaijan does not treat biometric data as a heightened special category and imposes no biometric-specific consent, retention, or storage-technology duty. |
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| Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) |
Publish a written, publicly available policy establishing a retention schedule, and permanently destroy biometric identifiers and biometric information within 3 years of the individual's last interaction or when the collection purpose is satisfied, whichever occurs first. |
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| Federal Law No. 572-FZ, Unified Biometric System for Identification and Authentication |
Obtain written consent before processing a person's biometric data in Russia, never condition service on that consent, and retain any biometric sample your organization holds only up to 10 days before deleting it, since the durable copy of record lives in the state system. |
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| Capture or Use of Biometric Identifier Act (CUBI), as amended by HB 149 |
Store and transmit a captured biometric identifier with reasonable care equal to or exceeding the protection given your other confidential information, and destroy it within a reasonable time, no later than the first anniversary of when the collection purpose expires. |
AI risk obligations
3 laws, 2 jurisdictions| Jurisdiction | Law | What it asks, as read here |
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| AI Act, Article 26(10) (post-remote biometric identification authorisation) from , in 13 months |
If the authorisation is rejected, stop the linked use immediately and delete the personal data the use generated. |
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| AI Act, Articles 60 and 61 (testing in real world conditions outside AI regulatory sandboxes, with informed consent) |
In the case of law enforcement, where seeking informed consent would prevent the AI system from being tested, make sure the testing itself and its outcome have no negative effect on the subjects and delete their personal data after the test is performed (Article 60(4), point (i)). |
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| Decreto Legislativo 160/2026, After-the-Fact Facial Recognition Integrated in Video Surveillance (Art. 10) |
If the time limits are not observed or authorisation is refused, stop the use and delete the personal data, results and outputs, unless they are the body of the offence (art. 10, comma 2). |
Enforcement supervision
3 laws, 3 jurisdictions| Jurisdiction | Law | What it asks, as read here |
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| Law No. 133/V/2001 on the Protection of Personal Data, enforcement and supervision |
Interrupt, cease or block processing once notified to do so, cooperate with a CNPD request, and erase or destroy personal data once notified or once its retention period under Article 6 has elapsed, on pain of the penalty for qualified disobedience. |
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| Loi n°2010/012 du 21 décembre 2010 relative à la cybersécurité et à la cybercriminalité au Cameroun, article 74 (atteinte à la vie privée et traitement illicite des données à caractère personnel) |
Do not retain nominative or encrypted personal data beyond the legal duration stated in the request for opinion or prior declaration for the processing, and do not disclose nominative data in a way that harms the person it concerns. |
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| Ontario | Personal Health Information Protection Act, 2004, offences and damages for breach of privacy |
Do not wilfully collect, use or disclose personal health information in contravention of the Act or its regulations, and do not wilfully dispose of a record in contravention of the secure disposal duty. |
Data subject rights
2 laws, 2 jurisdictions| Jurisdiction | Law | What it asks, as read here |
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| Electronic Commerce Act Section 13/A, Personal Data of Recipients of Information Society Services |
Delete data processed for the contract, billing and technical purposes after the contract ends or is not concluded and after billing, and delete data processed for the other purpose once that purpose ends or the recipient so decides (Section 13/A, paragraph 7). |
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| Ley No. 787, Ley de Protección de Datos Personales, rights of data subjects |
On a data subject's request, suppress and cancel their personal data from a social network, browser, or server, and, once your contractual relationship with them ends, suppress and cancel the personal data you collected during it. |
AI prohibited practices
1 law, 1 jurisdiction| Jurisdiction | Law | What it asks, as read here |
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| Decreto Legislativo 160/2026, Police Biometric AI: Dataset Labelling and Real-Time Remote Identification (Artt. 7-9, 13) |
Stop the use at once, and delete the personal data, results and outputs, if the conditions or time limits are not met or authorisation is refused (art. 8, comma 8). |
Sector security regimes
1 law, 1 jurisdiction| Jurisdiction | Law | What it asks, as read here |
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| DFS Guidance: Cybersecurity Risks Arising from Artificial Intelligence and Strategies to Combat Related Risks |
The Department states that you are required to dispose of nonpublic information that is no longer necessary for business operations or other legitimate business purposes, including nonpublic information used for AI purposes, and says that, although not required until , you should maintain and update data inventories and should identify all information systems that use or rely on AI and maintain an inventory of them. |
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