The ICO’s investigation on the DeepMind-NHS saga (not a scandal?) revealed this:

However, an investigation by the ICO discovered several shortcomings in how the data was handled, including that patients were not adequately informed that their data would be used as part of the test. (Extracted from ‘review-agrees-that-deepmind-nhs-deal-lacked-clarity’)

Based on the reported news the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica (CA) scandal (Top EU privacy watchdog calls Facebook data allegations the ‘scandal of the century) and the DeepMind-NHS saga did not involve a breach of technical security and/or organisational security measures (excluding privacy policies and app/SLA-type driven contractual agreements).

What data protection and privacy principles have been violated/breached?

Would ethics be a yardstick in the final determination of the Facebook-CA scandal?

The url:

https://twitter.com/datachainrisk/status/971197667660492800

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)

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! ).

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.

Even for customers who can afford commercial e-discovery, “There is no tool that fits what lawyers want. The only one you like is the one you’ve never seen and don’t use, because they are just all bad.”
..one of the cyncial things the [commercial] e-discovery people have done for quite a while is they will charge the lawyers a lot of money for all the message files they could construct from all those database entries. You’ve created all these duplicates that the database existed to manage in the first place. Then they’ll turn around and charge you to de-duplicate it…

Another news – Nuxeo and Hippo Team Up to Provide Seamless ECM / WCM Solution – coming from Open Source folks which could potentially change the way enterprises, big and small, deal with E-Discovery challenges.

I just counted the number of registered users here and click2ediscovery now has a dozen users. With all the jazz and ding-dong (this phrase just sprang to mind !) on ediscovery related stuff, how come no news from the alternative dispute resolution world on edisclosure.

On my radar screen, an ediscovery vendor was recently in the news. I don’t seem able to re-discover/retrieve the news! It’s about a vendor failing to perform or meet ediscovery requirements within their own organisation.

Notice the ‘My Tweets’ on this site? I will be tweeting on the ‘jazz and ding-dong’ on ediscovery coming from various quarters that appears on my radar screen. Will blog when I get to sit down and not jazzing around.

Do join in the jazz and ding-dong or follow edisclosure. More fun than joining another forum or group don’t you agree?

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…

Just the same old content i.e. the US stuff on the FRCP, e-mails, retention policy, technological tools for search and guides etc.

Flip through the nice charts and the articles and go straight to pages 20-21. Spot anything interesting? BTW you can also download a pdf version, how cool… Also the reader is reminded on IBM on every page.

The acronym, CYA caught my attention…

Seems that CYA is recognised as ‘simple human nature’ and when it comes down to saving their e-mails, employee can use ‘CYA’  argument against their employer.

Gosh, I guess one has to find new ways of dealing with e-discovery. So besides the charts and the step by step good practice guides, one can also use ‘CYA’ to save yourself and your e-mails. Would be interesting to see if there will be ‘CYA’ related e-discovery cases.