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Wash. high court: E-mail metadata is public record
October 8, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Metadata associated with electronic documents – such as the “to” and “from” fields in e-mails – is a public record subject to disclosure, Washington’s Supreme Court ruled Thursday.
The 5-4 ruling concerned a Shoreline resident’s request under the Public Records Act for an e-mail that had been sent to the city’s deputy mayor. The resident received a copy of the e-mail without the metadata and subsequently filed a request for the information.
“Metadata may contain information that relates to the conduct of government and is important for the public to know,” Justice Susan Owens wrote. “It could conceivably include information about whether a document was altered, what time a document was created, or who sent a document to whom.”
Owens wrote that only one other state high court – Arizona’s – has considered the question, and it too held that that the information is subject to disclosure.
The issue has arisen elsewhere as courts grapple with the intersection of technology and disclosure laws. An appeals court in New York ruled early this year that an agency should have released certain metadata associated with photographs pursuant to a disclosure request.
Metadata is generally defined as data about data, and it can include information such as the address fields in e-mails, file types, file creation and modification dates, and the author of such modifications. It can be used to authenticate e-
Official Google Blog: Email overload? Try Priority Inbox
August 31, 2010 By Leave a Comment
People tell us all that time that they’re getting more and more mail and often feel overwhelmed by it all. We know what you mean—here at Google we run on email. Our inboxes are slammed with hundreds, sometimes thousands of messages a day—mail from colleagues, from lists, about appointments and automated mail that’s often not important. It’s time-consuming to figure out what needs to be read and what needs a reply. Today, we’re happy to introduce Priority Inbox (in beta)—an experimental new way of taking on information overload in Gmail.
Gmail has always been pretty good at filtering junk mail into the “spam” folder. But today, in addition to spam, people get a lot of mail that isn’t outright junk but isn’t very important—bologna, or “bacn.” So we’ve evolved Gmail’s filter to address this problem and extended it to not only classify outright spam, but also to help users separate this “bologna” from the important stuff. In a way, Priority Inbox is like your personal assistant, helping you focus on the messages that matter without requiring you to set up complex rules.
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International E-Discovery Compliance- Privacy First | Business44.Com – Business Site
August 21, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Outside of the United States, international data transfer laws are governed by regional, local privacy, and data protection laws. Multinational businesses must understand the implications such laws have on e-discovery. First, one must again draw distinctions between the U.S. and other nations. For example, when we are discussing “personal data” in the US, we are referring to such things as financial and medical data. Within the EU, however, personal data refers to such things as electronic mail. Privacy Directives and member state enabling legislation as data which can be traced to an identifiable individual (the “sender,” or “from” line).
The US is fairly lax in what it allows outside of its borders, boasting very little in the way of statutes preventing the transportation of data. Yet, the E.U. Privacy Directives and enabling legislation hold that personal data (again, all email), may not be sent outside the European Economic Area (the E.U. member states plus Switzerland, Liechtenstein and Norway to any country with lesser data protection than the E.U. There are only a few nations that meet the EU’s standards for data transfer: Canada, Switzerland and Argentina. And this scheme is not limited to the E.U.; Chile and Venezuela have similar restrictions, and Japan requires consent of the data subject for email to be sent outside the country.
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Who Does This Email Address Belong To? What You Need to Do to Know
August 1, 2010 By Leave a Comment
When unsolicited mails otherwise known as spam messages become unbearable, then it becomes very important to find out who an email address belong to. Spam mails is one of the major problems that electronic mails providers and users consistently battle with on a regular basis, this menace is costing the mail company a lot of money every day.
The end users want to use their mail address with peace of mind rather than experiencing spam mails in their in box everyday and as such they are looking for every avenue possible to put an end to it. Unfortunately there is little or nothing anyone can do to stop receiving such mails but there is a solution to getting who is actually sending those kind of messages.
This technology is known as the reverse email search or look up, it is the only known technology that gives you instant result and the specific details about the person that is spamming your email address. It perfectly answers the question “who does this email address belong to?, it gives you the ability to search for the details of an email owner right in the comfort of your room. The detail of the owner is given to you instantly at the click of the mouse at a very affordable fee.
The private organizations that are offering this service has made available a user friendly website that you can use to carry out your search at the click of the mouse. The website is very easy to navigate that practically anyone can successfully carry out a reverse email search without any supervision.
You will be amazed at how instantly you can get someone’s details just by the click of the mouse, you will be given access to the owner’s full address, the full name, location of the owner, phone number, IP of the internet service provider and other relevant information about the owner of the email address.
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International E-Discovery Compliance- Privacy FirstEmail Archiving Articles | Email Archiving Articles
July 22, 2010 By 1 Comment
Outside of the United States, international data transfer laws are governed by regional, local privacy, and data protection laws. Multinational businesses must understand the implications such laws have on e-discovery. First, one must again draw distinctions between the U.S. and other nations. For example, when we are discussing “personal data” in the US, we are referring to such things as financial and medical data. Within the EU, however, personal data refers to such things as electronic mail. Privacy Directives and member state enabling legislation as data which can be traced to an identifiable individual (the “sender,” or “from” line).
The US is fairly lax in what it allows outside of its borders, boasting very little in the way of statutes preventing the transportation of data. Yet, the E.U. Privacy Directives and enabling legislation hold that personal data (again, all email), may not be sent outside the European Economic Area (the E.U. member states plus Switzerland, Liechtenstein and Norway to any country with lesser data protection than the E.U. There are only a few nations that meet the EU’s standards for data transfer: Canada, Switzerland and Argentina. And this scheme is not limited to the E.U.; Chile and Venezuela have similar restrictions, and Japan requires consent of the data subject for email to be sent outside the country.
Electronic discovery now a complex fixture in business litigation – Business First of Columbus
July 12, 2010 By Leave a Comment
You dial your cell phone to call your attorney. You have just created electronic information. Your lawyer is at lunch, so you leave a voice mail. More electronic data.
Every day, people create millions of pieces of electronic information, often without giving it a second thought. Often, the information is innocuous, but sometimes, it can be the nail in the coffin or the key to acquittal at a trial.
“Nearly everything electronic is logged somewhere and can be discovered,” said Scott Campbell, a partner at Thompson Hine LLP.
In order to locate electronically stored information that might prove pivotal in litigation, today’s attorneys must engage in electronic discovery, also known as e-discovery. They say this effort now is a cornerstone of the corporate legal process.
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