After all, the tax law is chock full of record retention rules.

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Companies make many copies of the same electronic data to analyze and share it and also to protect themselves if their computing infrastructure crashes, say, due to a blackout or to comply with record retention policies.

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The Order found that the NYSE violated Rule 603(a) of Regulation NMS and the record retention provisions of Section 17(a)(1) of the Securities Exchange Act and Rule 17a-1, and NYSE Euronext, which supplied the personnel responsible for these systems and compliance, caused the violations.

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