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Deleting emails and files is a type of initiative that looks easy at the outset but become difficult. Emails and files are retained, and month after month, can quickly year after year they accumulate creating digital layers called information horizons. These information horizons contain a little bit of everything: records, non-records, copies containing high-value value information, personal information, intellectual property, and even documents subject to legal hold.

What issues should companies consider when implementing best practices for utilizing AI in the workplace? This resource outlines issues to consider when developing a corporate AI policy.

In this ACC Guide, learn why letting electronic information accumulate can be hurtful, and why deleting it can be difficult. The guide  reviews several deletion approaches that are ineffective and highlights those approaches that work well. These smart strategies will enable companies to create effective programs that ensure compliance, reduce risk, lower costs, and increase productivity.

This article with its sample delegation of authority (DOA) form will assist in-house counsel who are struggling with issues related to signing authority, staff approval limits, and information passing.

In development or update of a records program it may appear that once a company has its policies and processes, roadmap, tools, and technology in place, some may believe they are done. However, here is still a critical task remaining: employee behavior change management.

The ACC Records Management Program Maturity model provides a detailed maturity model for all aspects of an organization’s records program.

It seeks to gauge program effectiveness across a variety of program elements, taking a “big picture” view to increase program value.

It can be costly to hold on to information that is obsolete, expired, either legal, regulatory, and not needed for or business reasons.  An organization must determine what needs to be saved (meaning, it can identify what can be disposed). Policies can be developed that include both the business justification and process for deleting electronic documents, and establish consistent, repeatable, defensible processes that allow for the routine deletion of data not under a legal hold.

Learn about the significant implications (for data users and holders) of the Data Act proposed by the European Commission in February 2022, regarding who can use and access data generated by connected devices.

This checklist provides a means to determine if your business is affected by the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA). If your business falls under this category, this checklist also covers building action items that move the organization toward compliance.

This sample policy establishes guidelines for the use of Artificial Intelligence tools.