Every minute of every workday, multinational employers rely on sophisticated HR information technologies to manage their global workforces. Laws worldwide regulate information technology, and so multinationals must comply, globally. Some laws regulating information technology expressly address the electronic tech context—for example, data security, data breach and data protection laws. These laws can be complex, but at least their application to electronic data processing is clear. These laws have been analyzed in detail in treaties, articles, conferences and webinars, for years. Separately, a different kind of law also regulates electronic recordkeeping, but in a way less understood in the electronic HR data context: old-school, legacy legal rules that predate the electronic era and that presuppose hardcopy paper documents.