GDPR: Should you delete all emails after a certain period?

Stuart Sumner
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Robert Bond, partner at law firm Bristows LLP, explains how to deal with the tricky issue of having sensitive data mixed through your email databases

The EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is set to come into force in May 2018, and there is widespread consternation at many firms around what to do with personal data that resides in em...

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