Insights & Updates
DPC Insights
From the field, not the textbook. Practical thinking on data privacy, compliance, and protection, written from real experience working with Australian businesses.
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Harvest Now, Decrypt Later: The Quiet Case For Deleting Data You Don’t Need
Read Article: Harvest Now, Decrypt Later: The Quiet Case For Deleting Data You Don’t NeedEncryption protects stolen data today. It says nothing about whether that copy stays unreadable in ten or fifteen years.
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The Compliance Trap: Why A Data Problem Doesn’t Get Solved By A Lawyer
Most organisations hand their data problem to legal. In practice, that’s the reason nothing gets deleted.
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How Much Data Is Too Much? Wrong Question.
There’s no amount of data where a sensible organisation should start worrying. The real test is whether anyone can account for what you’re holding.
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Your Data Retention Policy Doesn’t Cover The AI Tools Your Staff Are Already Using
Retention policies were written for systems you control. The AI tools your staff paste client files into aren’t one of them.
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Nobody Has Worked Out The Consequences Yet
Most organisations have adopted AI tools. Far fewer have worked out what that means for the data sitting underneath them.
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The Data You Kept For No Reason Is The Data That Hurts You Most
Most old data isn’t kept because someone decided it was worth keeping. It stays because nobody took responsibility for removing it.
