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— cher devey (@datachainrisk) October 17, 2019

The newsflash at SME-News.co.uk

I guess e-discovery related news and information are slowly but surely spreading across boundaries. The spread is further amplified with the recent security related news stemming from China and also news that there are now more internet users in China than in the US. Are you surprised? (Do your google search if you need convincing).

I recently downloaded the online chat application, ‘qq’ with the view to help me improve my mandarin writing and reading. However, I was informed by my Chinese friend that the security aspect of qq is not ‘secure’. She further added that I can buy some ‘security’ if I am willing to pay. Mmm..without going into the details, qq uses a business model unlike Skype or Messenger. I doubt the ‘security’ model (payment application driven) will bypass whatever the higher authority has in place or in mind.
To me, dealing with e-discovery without knowing or being aware of digital forensics and the various security models (and also the underpinning or overarching laws and rules) is like driving across the international borders without a guide (local or specialist person) and/or a Sat Nav device/system. Which is more important, a human guide or a Sat Nav device? I guess the answer is ‘it depends…’?!

It depends on a multitude of human and non-human factors/elements and as shown by the GEC Conference, digital forensics and privacy laws are picked to address some of the challenges underpinning e-discovery in cross-border litigation. A recent publication from Herbert Smith, ‘A Guide to Dispute Resolution in Asia 2009‘ provides some handy information with mention of electronic communications, e-mails, electronic document and electronic filing but no mention of e-discovery. Maybe the next Asian edition/publication will feature e-discovery.

Mmm even did not get to twitter while in Asia. Oh I’ve now got an edisclosure twitter (do follow edisclosure) and also on YouTube. I did find some time to produce a short snappy video for the LegalTechTownHall Questions. My two cents (or pennies) worth video is here.

Maybe one day I will be able to freely tweet and post videos from my mobile phone. Super freely, smarty tweety mobile next?

Here’s a blog-worthy report with the headline: Twitter lands congressman in hot water’. Hot water also for the Pentagon as it is reported to be looking to review its policy regarding the dissemination of potentially sensitive information in the light of new technologies. On the other hand, Twitter gets more funding even without a business model. How about that for the global credit crunch and the bankers!

Will people tweet more and more and blog less and less? Mmm maybe the 78 rpm record player will make a come back too.

On the subject of blogging, arbitrators are now blogging but not using their own blog site but via/under a well know publisher site. Doesn’t sound like blogging to me, still they’re ‘blogs’ and not posted as articles. I’ve not read the ‘blogs’ but have scanned for edisclosure ‘blogs’. Nothing there. I will keep track of the’ blogs’ at Kluwerarbitrationblog.

Two rather blog-worthy news for me came from two sources, one is a book and another is from a lawyer. The book title caught my attention, not the content. The title read: You Can Lead an Atheist to Evidence, But You Can’t Make Him Think: Answers to Questions from Angry Skeptics (the book is by Ray Comfort ). Isn’t that title something to ponder! I certainly need to think just to read that title!

Less thinking more a creative spark or ingenuity (who knows?!), a certain lawyer certainly knows how to do marketing with a title ‘ RentAJudge ‘. The trade mark site is at rentajudge

The formula for marketing seems to be ‘credit crunch’ + ‘costs’ + ‘ediscovery’ = alternative to alternative dispute resolution (with the exception = no choice litigation).
Well even the ICC is offering training on Amicable Dispute Resolution!
Oh well…

Also, another IT friend in UK pointed this rather interesting read at wikipedia, PROMIS

Interesting contrasts on the way governments use their ‘power’ to control and/or use information.

I have looked at collaboration tools (mainly Open Source Software) in the past for communities and wondered if anyone would be interested to explore this with me for the ADR (covering mediation and arbitration) communities.

If interested, please leave me your comment here. I am avoiding posting my e-mail here to avoid auto spammers.

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