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Record Keeping

What is Record Keeping?

The systematic creation, maintenance, and disposal of records documenting data processing activities as required by privacy regulations.

Privacy and Data Protection

Each of these is named in at least one of the same controls as record keeping. The number is how many controls name both.

What the standards actually require on record keeping

Requirements naming record keeping across 6 standards, quoted from the control text.

EU AI Act2 controls

High-risk AI systems shall technically allow for the automatic recording of events (logs) over the lifetime of the system, ensuring a level of traceability appropriate to the intended purpose;

EUAI-Art.12 · Record-keeping (logs)

Recommendation 10 (Customer Due Diligence / CDD): financial institutions should be required to undertake CDD measures: (a) identifying the customer + verifying that customer's identity using reliable + independent source documents + data + information;

FATF-R.10_11 · Customer Due Diligence + Record Keeping (FATF R.10 and R.11)

Manufacturers, importers and distributors must keep records of statements of compliance and other prescribed information for at least 10 years (or such period as set by regulations).

PSTI-08 · Record Keeping

Maintain records and evidence relevant to predicate offences and laundering activity in a form admissible in criminal proceedings.

AMLD6-Recordkeeping · Record Keeping for Investigations

Keep the records required in relation to sharing information with the My Health Record system, including where an exception was relied on.

MYHR-SBD-3 · Record keeping for sharing with the My Health Record system

Maintain records of measures taken to comply with AIDA obligations, available on Commissioner request.

AIDA-12 · Record Keeping

Questions people ask about record keeping

What is Record Keeping?
The systematic creation, maintenance, and disposal of records documenting data processing activities as required by privacy regulations.
Why is Record Keeping important for compliance?
Record Keeping is a key concept in Privacy and Data Protection. Understanding record keeping helps organizations meet regulatory requirements, reduce risk, and demonstrate due diligence during audits. Our compliance platform maps 686 frameworks with 311K cross-framework control mappings.
Which compliance frameworks address Record Keeping?
Record Keeping appears in the requirement text of EU AI Act, FATF 40 Recommendations, UK Product Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure Act (PSTI), 6th Anti-Money Laundering Directive (AMLD6, Directive (EU) 2018/1673) - superseded by AMLD7, Australia My Health Records Act 2012. Across these standards we have identified 9 controls that name it directly, each linked to the control text on the compliance platform.
Where can I learn more about Record Keeping?
Explore our compliance framework pages to see how record keeping applies across different standards and regulations. Our implementation guides provide step-by-step guidance, and the compliance platform offers AI-powered analysis of how this concept maps across 686 frameworks.

See how Record Keeping applies across compliance frameworks

Our platform maps 686 frameworks with 311K cross-framework control mappings. Explore how this concept is addressed across standards.

Written and maintained by Gerard Blokdyk, The Art of Service.