Sensitive Data
Sensitive data refers to digital information that requires special handling due to its confidential, personal, classified, or culturally restricted nature. It may include Personally Identifiable Information (PII) like names, addresses, national IDs, medical records, financial details; Confidential Business or Institutional Data like Internal reports, proprietary research, strategic plans; Classified Government Data like national security documents, intelligence reports; Culturally Sensitive Materials like indigenous knowledge, sacred texts, or images with access restrictions as well as Legal and Regulatory Data like data protected under laws like GDPR, HIPAA, or FOIA.
Corporate Records of Long Duration on Network Drives, Intranets and EDRMS
Records on internal corporate network drives, intranets or document management services where access is limited to a distinct group of users, and in which the lifecycle of the record or the business processes they support is greater than the technology on which they are created or retained.
Electronic Hospital and Medical Records
Personal medical records and records of hospital treatment are increasingly—if not uniformly—born digital. By implication, those records should be retained through the lifetime of the patient, or in some instances longer as required for intergenerational study; and yet there is little evidence of the medical profession participating in the digital preservation community.
Pension, Mortgage and Insurance Records
Records of transactions for long-lived financial products and services contracted between individuals and corporations. These records typically contain or depend on significant amounts of personal information and outlast the infrastructure on which they were created.