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Legally, What Constitutes an 'Original' E-Mail?

White House E-Mails Still Missing

General Accounting Office: VA Data Still at Risk

Bay Area CSO Council: eDiscovery & the Role of the CSO

Computerworld

Legally, What Constitutes an 'Original' E-Mail?

Large companies regularly receive requests to hold data as part of a legal e-discovery. It's when the e-discovery includes a request for an "electronic original" that a company may find itself unsure how to comply. Case in point: E-mail represents the highest volume of electronic data requested during litigation, but no one thinks about an e-mail's origination. For instance, is it when the user starts typing the e-mail? Is it the e-mail in their out-box? Is it the e-mail in the recipient's in-box? Or is it a copy of the e-mail stored in another mailbox that is collected by a third-party tool and stored in multiple pieces by both a SQL server and the file system?>> Read the full article | Forward to a friend

EWEEK

White House E-Mails Still Missing

The Bush administration may be running out the clock in its efforts to resist a congressional inquiry and two lawsuits seeking the whereabouts and contents of more than 5 million missing White House e-mails, according to one of the organizations that has filed a suit. "The White House has known for a number of years the e-mails were missing and refused to do anything about it," Anne Weisman, chief counsel for CREW (Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington), told eWEEK. Covering more than a two years, the missing e-mails came to light as part of congressional inquiries into the White House's firing of U.S. attorneys.>> Read the full article | Forward to a friend

Associate Press

General Accounting Office: VA Data Still at Risk

Some sensitive data of veterans remains at risk even though the Veterans Affairs Department has begun improvements to improve information security, according to the latest report from the Government Accountability Office. VA still has not fully put in place most previous GAO recommendations and the department¹s inspector general to strengthen information technology security, according to the report.  "Because these recommendations have not yet been implemented, unnecessary risk exists that the personal information of veterans and others, such as medical providers, will be exposed to data tampering, fraud and inappropriate disclosure," investigators said.>> Read the full article | Forward to a friend

Bay Area CSOs Gather

Bay Area CSO Council: eDiscovery & the Role of the CSO.

You're invited to attend the 6th BACC CSO Round Table on e-Discovery and the Role of the CSO, scheduled on October 19, 2007. The event will take place at the Microsoft Technology Center in Mountain View, CA from 9:30am to 2:00pm. Breakfast and Lunch will be included. RSVP to: jacques@proofspace.com>> Read the full article | Forward to a friend