Symantec’s survey : Information Retention and eDiscovery Survey (international coverage)

Can’t locate the Year Review from Kroll Ontrack Inc. Notes at Businesswire.com
and at continuitycompliance.org (US coverage)

Fulbright’s litigation trend (US & UK)

For those of us who create applications (apps) or build systems we do so to meet business needs or to make a living or some other reasons. How we use the data subsequently (created by the apps) is generally not build into the apps. We don’t design apps to limit data generation or to identify data with meta data such that we know every bit of data being created. It is like asking for an app that will track every bit of data being created without the app creating data too. Imagine an app for this and guess what will top the chart for next year end ediscovery survey!

Is it the same as uttering or saying less (e-mail or phone) to convey a message without the message being short circuited or miss-interpreted?

I use applications every day. I create data every day too. I make dumb decision some day. Today I make a decision which is dumb due to lack of data being conveyed.
Dumb apps or dumb data or dumb me?

Why five principles?

This principle – Privacy by design -  sounds great with the 3 words title which is rather arty and catchy like a company’s business motto.

The description – ‘New technical developments have to observe data privacy requirements at an early development stage, thus permitting the introduction of data protecting hardware and software’.

Only ‘new’ technical developments and at an ‘early’ development stage?

Just another play with words for my own amusement.

In terms of designing hardware and software for data privacy and/or protection, the play with words will not help software folks.

When I am asleep, I guess I have nothing to do with technology unless I am in a technological related dream. This will probably be the end of my spirited being.

Here is an interesting question (or a dream question?) raised by someone at the Sociotechnology and Knowledge Development (sociotech) Group. I see nothing wrong in raising the question in my blog here. Any objections and concerns, please post here or contact cher at iedisc.com

Gosh! has technology got me to be so so cautious?!

The question coming from the sociotech group:

What do we really mean by technology?

This question sound similar to several questions raised by law/policy makers during an ediscovery conference I attended in 2009 in Barcelona.

Substitute the word ‘technology’ with ‘processing’ or ‘privacy’ or ‘consent’ (as in data protection), we end up with more dreamy questions with little common understanding or agreement, especially when discussing on ‘what are the real issues with cross border ediscovery?’.

The questions were based on this statement (or an opinion?):

There is no legal basis (or justification) for ‘processing’ which includes transferring, viewing, accessing etc, of data in ediscovery across the Atlantic (i.e. the Europe & US divide). What? No viewing, i.e. I can’t even open-view the file/data !

I guess the answers were not in the questions being raised, as the only answer that the policy makers were seeking to get assurance is: ‘how safe is my (personal) data’?

So, ‘What do we really mean by technology?’

My dreamy reply: ‘technology’ is a beast and also a non beast, a thing and also a thingy.

What is your view(s)?

Interoperability agreements with competitors in European Clearing, a new chapter in the security industry and a host of interesting developments in the making.

Does this mean that Cloud Computing is now passé?

To quote Paknad in the news at law.com: “There’s no easy button, there’s just complex and more complex buttons.”

Complex buttons leading to more sore fingers and eyes ( even with predictive coding! ).

Information Risk Management & Assurance

Specialist Group

Have you heard of Electronic Discovery/Disclosure?

Tuesday 8th November 2011

18:00 Registration & buffet

18:30 Presentation

19:30 Networking Session

Venue: The British Computer Society

First Floor, The Davidson Building, 5 Southampton Street, London, WC2E 7HA

Speaker:  Cher Devey

Event Details

Have you heard of Electronic Discovery/Disclosure? If not, come and be enlightened, and if already an expert, do please come and share your stories and enlighten us all.

The format of the evening will be driven by dialogue with attendees with a short opening talk on what is Electronic Discovery/Disclosure and why IT folks need to know this.

Please note that I have not included the trademark symbol in this blog & in the blog’s title as I am not referring to Recommind’s patented  ‘predictive coding’.

Embracing technology, including predictive coding, is ultimately a game-changing  ‘war’ (Predictive Coding war breaks out in US ediscovery sector? ).

Let’s hope more predictive coding technology will be deployed for cost cutting the ediscovery costs and not be locked in competition mode.

I have long discovered that projects don’t come in nice, neat packages; they are messy in a nice, messy way. One can always clean up a mess or leave the mess as it is. One thing for sure the mess will not go away in its own accord (even if it is designed to self de-mess there will still be debris left!).

I started this blog in the middle of downloading a theme from the WordPress site and their ‘Code is poetry’ got me mulling again..
According to Lawrence Lessig, ‘Code is law’, however given a choice of ‘Code is poetry’ I prefer ‘Code is poetry’. Saying so, I rather stick to my code, ‘Code is messy’ as it’s the stuff of living messy life that makes life interesting or/and worthwhile.

Another of my mulling over ‘why I am blogging this here’?!
Put this to test when dealing with ediscovery stuff (from people, process, technology etc);
Hands up if you get ‘code is poetry’, hands down if you get ‘code is law’ and hands midway (with V sign?) if you get ‘code is messy’?

Now back to messing around with WordPress theme…