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How Long Can You Keep Candidate CVs Under GDPR?
There is no single EU number: retention is the recruitment process plus the claim window, then delete. Four weeks in NL, about six months in the UK and Germany.
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There is no single EU number: retention is the recruitment process plus the claim window, then delete. Four weeks in NL, about six months in the UK and Germany.
AI CV screening is legal in the EU, but two laws apply: the GDPR and the EU AI Act. Both require a human, not the software, to make the decision. Here is what that means.
The GDPR does not ban CV screening. It constrains your lawful basis, how much you collect, how long you keep it, and how much a machine may decide alone.