Keeping old resumes and customer numbers forever is now a legal risk.
Think about this. You have resumes from 2019 still sitting in a folder. You have old customer phone numbers on a spreadsheet you never open. You have ex-employee salary slips on WhatsApp. You think — no problem, it is just old data. But India's new data law says keeping people's information longer than needed is wrong. And it can bring a fine to your door.
Say you hired someone in 2021. They left. Their resume, salary slip, and Aadhaar copy are still in your Google Drive. That is a problem now. Or say you collected phone numbers from a trade fair in 2022. You never called them. Those numbers are still in your Excel sheet. The law says — if the work is done, delete the information. Every old file you keep is a risk you are carrying for no reason.
Open your folders and find files older than 2 years.
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