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Law.com
Widespread Use of Hashing, Key-Based Encapsulation of Data Imminent
Craig Ball at Law Technology News gazes into his crystal ball and comes back with some pretty interesting predictions for the near future of electronic data discovery (EDD). He says we will see more expert-mediated conferences as courts grapple with the technical intricacies of EDD and the inflated costs that dog inept efforts. "It just makes economic sense. In large cases, EDD expenses alone can dwarf the entire amount in controversy in smaller cases; in any size case, EDD mistakes can determine outcomes. Why wouldn't you resolve foreseeable disputes before you bet the company?" Hashing and key-based encapsulation of data are two of the more interesting prognostications he describes as coming down the eDiscovery pipe.
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Adobe.com
US Government Printing Office Authenticates Need for eDocument Integrity
Adobe has won a large contract with the US Government Printing office to deploy digital signatures, a technology closely related to ProofSpace's own Transient-Key ProofMarks™. GPO has implemented the new digital seal of authenticity for their electronic documents, including last week's release of the FY2009 budget. The GPO said, "For almost 150 years, the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) has been the official disseminator of Government documents and has assured users of their authenticity. In the 21st century, the increasing use of electronic documents poses special challenges in verifying authenticity, because digital technology makes such documents easy to alter or copy, leading to multiple non-identical versions that can be used in unauthorized or illegitimate ways. To help meet the challenge of the digital age, GPO has begun implementing digital signatures to certain electronic documents on GPO Access (the GPOss online portal) that not only establish GPO as the trusted information disseminator, but also provide the assurance that an electronic document has not been altered since GPO disseminated it."
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InformationWeek
IT
+ Legal BFF to Prevent Document Tampering
IT will have to develop processes for legal holds, in which messages or files that fall under the scope of litigation must be stored in such a way that they can't be changed, says Andrew Conry-Murray at InformationWeek. E-discovery was the word of the week at last week's LegalTech show in New York City. Vendors hawked a spectrum of products to help IT and corporate lawyers get their hands on relevant electronic documents, ensure those documents can't be tampered with, and pump them into the applications used by legal counsel. Just as important as products is close cooperation between your IT and legal departments. IT must help legal understand concepts such as metadata, archives, and tiered storage so the lawyers can more accurately describe to IT the scope of a discovery request.
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