Compliance frameworks
Regulated organizations must capture, preserve, supervise, and produce their records to satisfy the rules that govern them — a recordkeeping rule like SEC 17a-4 or MiFID II, or a data privacy compliance framework such as GDPR, Brazil’s LGPD or the Saudi PDPL, where Grotabyte implements Article 17 erasure under dual control and ledgers any refusal with its legal basis. Explore how Grotabyte maps to the frameworks our customers face across the Americas, Europe and the Middle East.
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The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and its state public-records equivalents give the public the right to request records held by government bodies. Agencies, public universities, and school districts must search, review, redact, and produce responsive records — quickly and defensibly.
Financial firms face some of the strictest recordkeeping rules anywhere. SEC Rule 17a-4, FINRA Rule 4511 and the rest of FINRA's books-and-records and supervision rules, and the EU's MiFID II all require firms to capture, preserve, supervise, and produce business communications — in a non-rewriteable format or under a compliant audit-trail alternative, and for years.
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) sets U.S. standards for protecting health information.
The FBI's Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) Security Policy governs how criminal justice information (CJI) is accessed, stored, transmitted, and protected. Law enforcement agencies — and the vendors that handle their data — must meet strict requirements for encryption, access control, and auditability across every system that touches CJI..
European and UK investment firms must record the conversations and electronic communications that relate to client orders — whether or not the order is ever placed — and be able to hand them to a regulator years later. MiFID II sets the EU baseline; the UK onshored it and the FCA enforces materially the same rule through SYSC 10A..
European obligations pull in two directions at once. GDPR says keep personal data no longer than you need it and erase it when someone asks; sectoral rules say keep certain records for years regardless.
The AI Act is the first regime to treat an AI system's own logs as regulated records. If your people are using assistants for business work, the question is no longer whether those interactions are records — it is who holds them, and for how long..
Latin American and Gulf regimes have converged on GDPR-shaped principles while keeping their own retention arithmetic. The obligations are recognisable; the periods, the regulators and the residency expectations are not, and they are still moving..
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