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Re: Zimbra releases more versatile IM and other features that put Outlook to shame

benjaminwright — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 09:16:34 -0000

As professionals use groupware like Zimbra (whether sold by Yahoo, MS or whomever) to draft and negotiate legal and business transactions, issues will arise regarding record retention and discovery in litigation.

Re: IBM makes big online collaboration move with LotusLive Engage

benjaminwright — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 23:06:10 -0000

Collaborative software environments like LotusLive Engage can create oceans of records on business interactions and negotiations. Those records can be fodder for e-discovery in a lawsuit. An issue businesses will face is whether to preserve those records under their record retention policies. --Ben

Re: New From Google: "Google Privacy Disaster Waiting to Happen"

benjaminwright — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 10:33:06 -0000

Maybe patients can use contract law to enhance the privacy of their health records. http://hack-igations.blogspot.com/2008/02/contracts-for-patient-privacy.html http://hack-igations.blogspot.com/2008/02/contr...

Re: [CES 2009] Anybot’s QA Telepresence Robot - This Is What The Beggining Of The End Looks Like

benjaminwright — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 14:11:31 -0000

As robots become common in public, existing privacy laws will restrict the ability of the machines to make audio recordings of human conversations (and possibly other recordings about personally identifiable humans). The law of robots will be challenging. Robot designers may react by making the machines record lots of other (non-audio) stuff about each machine's encounter with humans. The records will no doubt include detection of chemicals and odors associated with individual humans. --Ben http://hack-igations.blogspot.com/2008/03/robot...

Re: Ghosts of Travelgate

benjaminwright — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 09:35:49 -0000

E-mail records enable investigators like Grassley to dig deeper and quicker than they could have in Travelgate. --Ben

Re: U.S. Pushes Ahead With Derivatives Regulation

benjaminwright — Mon, 18 May 2009 19:12:26 -0000

Treasury Secretary Geithner is calling for new record-keeping requirements for what he calls "non-standard" derivatives. Part of the issue with the recordation of derivatives is that technology (e-mail, text message and so on) has made the formation of legally-binding contracts (such as derivatives) very cheap and easy. Efforts to promote better documenation on derivatives will provoke massive new campaigns to capture, archive and comprehend electronic financial records. See Details --Ben

Re: 5 Ways to Collaborate on Documents Online in Real Time

benjaminwright — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 22:23:51 -0000

Collaborative software environments like Live Office, Acrobat.com, Textflow, Zimbra and Zoho can create oceans of records on business interactions and negotiations. Those records can be fodder for e-discovery in a lawsuit. An issue businesses will face is whether to preserve those records under their record retention policies. --Ben

Re: Zoho Chat 2.0 Brings Multi-Protocol Support

benjaminwright — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 10:37:14 -0000

Collaborative software environments like Zoho, Engage, Acrobat.com, Textflow & Zimbra can create oceans of records on business interactions and negotiations. Those records can be fodder for e-discovery in a lawsuit. An issue businesses will face is whether to preserve those records under their record retention policies. --Ben

Re: How StalkDaily Opened a Gaping Hole in Twitter

benjaminwright — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 14:17:42 -0000

Virus infections in Twitter give employers and schools security as another reason to block Twitter. --Ben

Re: Multnomah County Tramples on Your Social Media Dream

benjaminwright — Wed, 13 May 2009 11:16:35 -0000

Multnomah’s sister county to the south, Jackson, is a pioneer in the exploitation of technology. Jackson may be the first (sizable) government agency in the county to archive ALL of its employee e-mail (and other e-messages like IM) indefinitely. Although such a policy is highly unusual, it reflects the county’s progressive realization that e-mail records are an asset of both the county’s government and its citizens.

Re: No, Apple Did NOT Ban Facebook

benjaminwright — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 11:10:44 -0000

My research documents reports of the Koobface worm infecting (or attempting to infect) workplace-related computers by way of Facebook. Employers/organizations thus have security as a reason to block social network sites. http://computersafety.wordpress.com/2009/01/19/... --Ben

Re: The Difference Between Red Light Cameras & Traffic Cameras

benjaminwright — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 18:11:49 -0000

A voter referendum to ban red-light cameras is advancing to the ballot in College Station, Texas. http://legal-beagle.typepad.com/wrights_legal_b... --Ben

Re: The Well Funded Layoff

benjaminwright — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 15:11:26 -0000

As employees are shown the door, an employer is wise to hang onto their e-mail records. --Ben http://legal-beagle.typepad.com/wrights_legal_beagle/2008/10/retain-e-mail-of-former-employees.html

Re: To Google, Anonymous = We Still Kinda Know Who You Are

benjaminwright — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 16:14:54 -0000

If Google can assert its legal terms just by publishing them (on something less than its homepage), then maybe users can assert their own terms of privacy protection just by publishing them! A user might say in her published terms of service that search engines cannot keep records of her searches longer than 2 weeks. What do you think? --Ben http://hack-igations.blogspot.com/2008/05/google-privacy-policy-terms-of-service.html My ideas are not legal advice for anyone, just something to discuss.

Re: Apple Store Bans Facebook For Life

benjaminwright — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 10:22:09 -0000

My research documents reports of the Koobface worm infecting (or attempting to infect) workplace-related computers by way of Facebook. Employers thus have security as a reason to block social network sites. http://computersafety.wordpress.com/2009/01/19/... --Ben

Re: Layoffs coming at Google?

benjaminwright — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 01:54:00 -0000

The world is different today compared to the past (compared to even just a year ago). The constant march of technology makes it possible for a smaller work force to do virtually the same job as a larger workforce. As white collar employees are handed pink slips, an employer like Google, a bank or a brokerage may be prudent to generously retain their e-mail records. The records are a valuable asset to the employer, relating to intellectual property, project management, customer relationships and more. --Ben http://legal-beagle.typepad.com/wrights_legal_beagle/2008/10/retain-e-mail-of-former-employees.html

Re: Zimbra offers BlackBerry support

benjaminwright — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 09:27:08 -0000

Zimbra inspires me to think. As professionals use groupware like Zimbra (whether sold by Yahoo, MS or whomever) to draft and negotiate legal and business transactions, issues will arise regarding record retention and discovery in litigation.

Re: Sony Layoffs Version 2.0: Another 8,000 (Or 16,000) Jobs

benjaminwright — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 16:44:29 -0000

The world is different today compared to the past (compared to even just a year ago). The constant march of technology makes it possible for a smaller work force to do virtually the same job as a larger workforce. As white collar employees are handed pink slips, an employer like a bank or a brokerage may be prudent to generously retain their e-mail records. The records are a valuable asset to the employer, relating to intellectual property, project management, customer relationships and more. --Ben

Re: Layoffs Coming At Dow Jones' Enterprise Group

benjaminwright — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 18:41:01 -0000

As employees are handed pink slips, an employer like a bank or a brokerage may be prudent to retain their e-mail records. The records are a valuable asset to the employer. --Ben http://legal-beagle.typepad.com/wrights_legal_b...

Re: Layoff Watch: Time Europe; Salon; Buzznet; Sezmi

benjaminwright — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 14:38:29 -0000

The world is different today compared to the past (compared to even just a year ago). The constant march of technology makes it possible for a smaller work force to do virtually the same job as a larger workforce. As white collar employees are handed pink slips, an employer like Time, Buzznet, Sezmi, a bank or a brokerage may be prudent to generously retain their e-mail records. The records are a valuable asset to the employer, relating to intellectual property, project management, customer relationships and more. --Ben http://legal-beagle.typepad.com/wrights_legal_b...

Re: Are Police Officer's Comments About Obama On Private My Space Pages Protected Speech?

benjaminwright — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 13:10:34 -0000

From the point of view of an employer (like the Durham Police Dept.), social networking is tricky. On the one hand, sites like Myspace promote camaradarie. On the other hand, they can foster abuse, [url=http://computersafety.wordpress.com/2008/11/13/web-20-block-the-bad-allow-the-good/]which the employer needs to block[/url]. --Ben

Re: School Officials Suspend Teacher After She Posts Photo Of Herself With Gun On Facebook

benjaminwright — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 14:16:42 -0000

To deter employers from viewing social networking pages, employees might post on their pages legal terms of service under which employers agree to scram. This idea should not be taken as legal advice, just something for public discussion. --Ben