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Google Scholar

admin — Wed, 20 Aug 2014 23:52:13 +0000

My paper cited and recorded by Google Scholar

Found the article that cited me. Luckily my surname was correct in the references. It wasn’t correct in the article, should be Devey not Devy.

Here is the article;

Gavin W. Manes & Elizabeth Downing (2010) What Security Professionals Need to Know About Digital Evidence, Information Security Journal: A Global Perspective, 19:3, 124-131, DOI: 10.1080/19393550903200466

Data Privacy Day January 2014

admin — Wed, 05 Feb 2014 12:25:13 +0000

Last Tuesday 28th February, I joined with couple of other PhD research students at City University London to celebrate Data Privacy Day #DPD2014. Although it was planned last minute the event went ahead and the speakers gave interesting and lively privacy related talks. Many thanks to the speakers, Mr Jonathan Turner and Mr David Haynes, the attendees, and last but not least to the organiser, Mr David Haynes.

I believe this was the first time #DPD2014 was celebrated at City University. It will not be the last time.

Next year we will plan well ahead of the January date.

My slides for the talk in pdf.

My talk was a condensed version of my talk for the BCS Law-IRMA event in September 2013. However, I introduced a bit about my PhD research theme.

Not just ESI

admin — Fri, 24 Jan 2014 14:50:59 +0000

The US Federal Rule of Civil Procedure (FRCP) 37(e) – on preservation, is pending revision. Note the commentary at aceds.org.

Preservation orders and the rules on Electronically Stored Information (ESI) are complex areas for policy makers and also IT folks. Some of these issues I have raised in my article and also briefly during my talk at BCS in November 2011. Both these are available on this page.

Personally I find the term, ESI a confusing term in the context of electronic discovery/disclosure (edisc). In edisc it is not only the digital/electronic information in storage that the rules/laws are addressing. The word ‘stored’ implies storage media/medium/devices and the data in storage is ‘at rest’. Hard to imagine that emails are ESI. In my talk I stated that edisc folks tend to address edisc by talking about discoverable media/medium/devices which is not the case in edisc. So now the proposed FRCP is addressing ‘discoverable information’ instead of just ESI.

Surveillance – my keyword from the year 2013

admin — Sun, 12 Jan 2014 15:17:12 +0000

I browsed about 10 mins ago on wikipedia for traffic viewing statistics on ‘electronic discovery’, ‘information privacy’, ‘information security’, ‘surveillance’ and ‘Edward Snowden’.

The ‘Electronic_discovery has been viewed 5883 times in the last 30 days.’, ‘Information_privacy has been viewed 4148 times in the last 30 days.’, ‘Information_security has been viewed 30227 times in the last 30 days.’ and ‘Surveillance has been viewed 19571 times in the last 30 days’. Most interestingly this ‘Edward_Snowden has been viewed 341274 times in the last 30 days’

The figures may not show exactly how many searches on ‘surveillance’ or ‘surveil’ but the wikipedia figures give a good enough guide for me to denote ‘surveillance’ as a keyword to take note.

I came across this article ‘Ford “Know[s] Everyone Who Breaks the Law” Using Cars They Made — Why Aren’t They Doing Something About It?‘. It is worth reading even though it is from a US perspective. Well, the Edward Snowden drama originated from the US but has news flashes across the Globe from the US to Hong Kong to Brazil to Russia and UK/Europe.

As highlighted in the volokm.com article, the term ‘surveil’ is now a legal watch word in the US.
Extracted statements from the article :
Failure to provide camera surveillance is now a common claim in negligence cases. “Take reasonable care” translates into a steady and growing pressure: investigate, surveil, disclose.