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Limit Retention of Logs Too

Logs are personal data — keep them only as long as they're useful.

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Logs accumulate personal data indefinitely if nobody sets them to expire, becoming a growing liability for a shrinking benefit. Retention limits on logs balance the investigative value against the privacy cost.

“Forever-logs are forever-liability.”

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