{"data":{"id":"us-ri/r.i.-gen.-laws-6-52-2","jurisdiction":"us-ri","citation":"R.I. Gen. Laws § 6-52-2","heading":"Safe destruction of documents.","body":"A business shall take reasonable steps to destroy or arrange for the destruction of a customer’s personal information within its custody and control that is no longer to be retained by the business by shredding, erasing, or otherwise destroying and/or modifying the personal information in those records to make it unreadable or indecipherable through any means for the purpose of:\n(1) Ensuring the security and confidentiality of customer personal information;\n(2) Protecting against any reasonably foreseeable threats or hazards to the security or integrity of customer personal information; and\n(3) Protecting against unauthorized access to, or use of, customer personal information that could result in substantial harm or inconvenience to any customer.","path":["Title 6 Commercial Law — General Regulatory Provisions","Chapter 52 Safe Destruction of Documents Containing Personal Information"],"source_url":"https://webserver.rilegislature.gov/Statutes/TITLE6/6-52/6-52-2.htm","current_through":"site files published 2025-08-13","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-05T17:33:14Z","sha256":"889d972e79fd92390fe2a10518ed8fc902dd3ccd01fc9d56f138a21b53ee5d04","source_id":"us-ri","stale":true,"prev":"us-ri/r.i.-gen.-laws-6-52-1","next":"us-ri/r.i.-gen.-laws-6-52-3"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}