An interesting read, Sorting Out Email: How SEC Decoded Insider Trading Ring.
The smart being out-smarted by code and decoded words.
Does this mean potatoes are the next new currency?
Recent developments coming from the International Bar Association (IBA) which I find worth noting are the ‘Draft revised IBA Rules on the Taking of Evidence in International Arbitration’ and the ‘IBA Guidelines for Drafting International Arbitration Clauses’. For folks familiar with the IBA website, the pdf versions may be located via their search tool.
According to my web hoster, this site/blog will be moving to a new high performance server in the next 24 hours.
Such is life in the data world – inconveniences for a faster (& safer?) access?
For the past weeks I have the ‘freedom’ to explore my websites, Facebook, YouTube and Twitter. You see, I have been out of the online social scenes since last September when I left UK for Beijing. Came back to UK just to sort personal stuff and see my kids before I leave for Beijing again.
Sitting here and with all the freedom to click to whatever sites/blogs etc. , I ought to feel great (and grateful) that I don’t get a page telling me ‘Page not available’. Strangely, I feel the break from the online social sites a great mind cleanser or should I say ‘data cleanser’?
By my (temporarily) cleansed mind, I am not missing much in terms of new found data/information or the ediscovery/edisclosure scenes. What I do recognise or discover is that my data/photos/news and whereabouts are really not everyone’s business at all?! More strangely, other people’s data/photos/news and whereabouts are a constant source of mystery and a rich playground for all kinds of mischief including learning.
Would you rather get a ‘Page not available’ or something mysterious or an obscure/ repeated blogs/stories about someone/something/stuff that isn’t your business at all? Who has the right to determine which data is mine or/and is not everybody’s business? Well…it’s like doing ediscovery/edisclosure, isn’t it?
Whether my data or other people’s data is private or not, it is so good to be able to re-connect with friends again at Facebook.
February 19, 2010 – 12:19 pm
I am currently hopping around London and elsewhere too.
So a quick post on what’s new in the Data scene. Check out the ICC’s site on news coming from the European Commission on changes to the Standard Contractual Clauses.
December 27, 2009 – 2:49 pm
Is change constant? Perhaps only when it comes to changing to a new year, a new calendar. Should I look back to the noughties years (2000s) or even well before the noughties years?
I guess it won’t make any sense to compare or contrast past year’s events or developments especially when it comes to talking about technology or the internet. Still…it does make interesting reading if one can grasp the full extent of the changing technological landscape.
Since I am only able to recognize the changing calendar and as I have been on the move a lot over the past years, my newsfeed are via my friends or from social media sites. Being in Beijing means access to social media sites and blog sites takes on a new dimension. I have to re-invent how I connect with new friends and turn to the foursquare to ‘shout’ out my location or bearing. Would anyone find my identity and location in 2012? (see the movie?!)
Nothing to do with ediscovery but a reminder that I am in Beijing and a Chinese friend has a new business at www.tui3.com My challenge is to learn mandarin (fast enough!?) such that I can use this site.
Before I say farewell to the noughties, here is a glimpse of what someone said ‘you need to know about e-discovery in 2010’.
Notice any changes? I can only recognize the change from 2009 to 2010.
Happy 2010.
October 17, 2009 – 5:06 pm
Soon there will be Chinese-character Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) for mobile users.
Perhaps soon there will also be a ‘Non-Uniform Domain-Name Dispute Resolution’ mechanism. Also, this month the WIPO celebrated the ten year anniversary of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)
October 14, 2009 – 2:18 pm
Since I can’t tweet I will use my blog to post.
Research into trust model(s) in the cloud and a new credit privacy rule (still in draft according to the report) in China.
October 12, 2009 – 4:10 pm
I am slowly getting used to not having ‘full access’ to the world wide web in the widest and wildest sense of the word in the so called connected world of information.
I have no access to my own websites (the Ning.com social sites are blocked!) and no posting on Facebook and Twitter. Gosh, what next?!
Am I missing much? Strangely…nope. I guess I have been too busy with being a foreigner in a strange country.
Just caught a report at ZDNet about Asia (not blocked!). I reckon China’s lawmakers have no inkling of copying the European model.
No access, no breaches, no privacy challenges so no need for privacy laws?
August 14, 2009 – 1:12 pm
I remembered doing a bit of research into the Constitution of the P.R.C. (for my Data Protection LLM module) back in 2003. I wondered what my synthesis would be now. Has the P.R.C. legal landscape changed over the past six years?
A Chinese lawyer friend visited me (as I will be leaving town soon – an informal good-bye stuff) this week. Somehow we ended up discussing ‘justice’ in China over several cups of tea and goodies from Hong Kong.
One day I will write more…
Today, I received this article – Personal Information Protection in China – © 2009 Hunton & Williams LLP, New York, New York in my mail. Mmm… the local law in China (for me) is probably a bit like the stuff over tea and cookies which ‘justice’ can’t bite or should I say ‘chew and swallow’. In a way the piecemeal, act-by-act basis of introducing law or any act sounds like chewing and swallowing.