GDPR which stands for General Data Protection Regulation is one of those things that surfaces in the IT world (y2k would be another) that seems like a godsend to the lawyers and anybody doing project management. Endless paperwork, meetings, manual writing and training that seems to achieve little but cost a ton. One of the problems with GDPR is the very broad brush it paints with about what is considered private data and what constitutes compliance. What I'm going to cover in this post is what you can do if your on the receiving end of a GDPR data request around Contacts that are stored in an Exchange Mailbox and how scripting can help you out. I'm not going to talk about any of the legalities around GDPR because its a bit of minefield but look more at it from the data prospective. Mailbox Contacts From a strictly data view the majority of properties that make up an Outlook Contact record is private data. Eg a Persons Name, PhoneNumber, Email Address, Address information ...
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