This is info relating to a court case in the USA, so not directly and immediately relevant to us in the UK, but you know how things tend to follow..
I thought it makes an interesting article, especially in light of the other thread regarding ISP censorship. On one hand they may remove info while on the other being forced to actually generate more info.
Mods - (sorry to make such a long post again, i thought it best to quote in full here rather than simply steal the originating sites bandwidth..is that best, for future reference? If you would rather, please feel free if you want to edit and just link to the op instead.)
edit - ps, my first poll..please feel free to correct me if i shouldnt have or have done it wrong cheers / edit
(source - read here for the article)
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EDIT - ok having read up on copyright.. i was technically wrong to quote the whole article
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I thought it makes an interesting article, especially in light of the other thread regarding ISP censorship. On one hand they may remove info while on the other being forced to actually generate more info.
Mods - (sorry to make such a long post again, i thought it best to quote in full here rather than simply steal the originating sites bandwidth..is that best, for future reference? If you would rather, please feel free if you want to edit and just link to the op instead.)
edit - ps, my first poll..please feel free to correct me if i shouldnt have or have done it wrong cheers / edit
by Mark Rasch
SecurityFocus
Thursday Aug 9, 2007
A series of legal events means that companies that have no business reason to retain documents or records may be compelled to create and retain such records just so they can become available for discovery.
Companies routinely create, maintain and store electronic records. Some records are consciously created – like memoranda, letters, spreadsheets, and even e-mails and chat or instant message communications. Other records are created inadvertently, like meta data, log records, IP history records and the like. Some information is useful to the company, and it wants to retain it, and other information is of little use, merely takes up space, creates potential liability, and represents an unwarranted threat for attack or violation of privacy. The problem for most companies in developing or maintaining a document retention/destruction policy is identifying the documents and records it wants to keep and effectively purging the ones it doesn't want. Some recent legal events have made the problem of document retention and destruction even more complicated.
A recent case involving file sharing site TorrentSpy illustrates the point....
(source - read here for the article)
continued next post..
EDIT - ok having read up on copyright.. i was technically wrong to quote the whole article
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