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data disposition

/ˈdeɪtə ˌdɪspəˈzɪʃən/ - n.

1 [colloq.] The least-rehearsed verb in the data lifecycle, and the first one a regulator asks you to demonstrate.Keep. Punchy.This is the problem.

Working definition

2. The defensible destruction or transfer of records at the end of their retention period.

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See also

data retention scheduleA document specifying when data will be deleted, ratified by an organization that has never deleted anything.
keep everything for aiData minimization's opposite, sponsored at the executive level, filed under strategy rather than under risk.
records managementA lifecycle with a thorough creation stage, a generous storage stage, and a disposition stage observed mainly in theory.
right to be forgottenA right honored in production, in staging, in the warehouse, in the lake, in the backups, and in the seventeen exports nobody mapped.