In Google Scholar and Books

March 25, 2015 – 2:12 am

Besides Google Scholar, my (only) article ‘Electronic Discovery/Disclosure: From Litigation to International Commercial Arbitration’ has now been cited/referenced in the following books;

ICDR Awards and Commentaries, Volume 1
edited by Grant Hanessian
Link provided by Google search

Arbitration Advocacy in Changing Times
edited by A. J. van den Berg
Link provided by Google search

AAA Handbook on International Arbitration Practice
By American Arbitration Association
Link provided by Google search

Many thanks to the editors and publishers.

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My techlaw talk at a BCS joint event on the EU Data Protection Regulation back in 2013

November 26, 2014 – 10:02 pm

bcstalk
It was over a year ago that I gave a talk at a joint BCS IRMA and the LAW groups held on the 30th September 2013. Details of the event was posted on this blog
The slides are available in pdf
To watch the video, you will need to sit down and relax to view the recording in mp4. The duration of the talk and recording was over 1:30 hours (recorded time of 1:33:19).

Also posted on youtube

Thanks and enjoy!
Cher

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Google Scholar

August 20, 2014 – 11:52 pm

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

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Data Privacy Day January 2014

February 5, 2014 – 12:25 pm

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.

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Not just ESI

January 24, 2014 – 2:50 pm

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.

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Surveillance – my keyword from the year 2013

January 12, 2014 – 3:17 pm

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.

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tracking Santa!

December 24, 2013 – 11:29 pm

Just have to blog this!
Watching the ‘tracking of Santa delivering gifts’!
Quick go to your online chimney

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The grand EU data protection reform [29C3]

December 8, 2013 – 10:14 pm

A video published on 28 Dec 2012 on youtube

I didn’t know that ‘Angry Birds’ need my location data.

Come May 2014, these grand EU Data Protection reform will take shape in some form – definitely with no mention of ‘Angry Birds’ in the reform itself.

Worth listening to these ‘fresh outward’ looking speakers. A pity the session was not in debate style.

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About this blogging site and beyond

November 24, 2013 – 2:47 pm

This blogging site will soon passed its 5th anniversary and time to revisit what to do with this blog.
As noted in the About page, this blog was setup (on the fly, virtually within less than an hour, that’s the beauty of WordPress) primarily for my research and activities on edisclosure/ediscovery.

My interests are varied as listed in my main jollyvip website.

Since October this year, 2013 I’m a PhD research student with the Centre for Cyber Security Sciences (CCySS) with the City University London.

My domains of research are varied too. I use the word ‘domain’ as I have not figured out where all my interests lie or map into the academia world of research with it’s own definition of disciplines and schools and departments. I do know that my main interest is in computer science (or software engineering). Over the years, having worked primarily on complex software projects/programmes, I am particularly drawn to the dynamics of interaction between people (hence my foray into Law and Dispute Resolution) and within organisations. To me, computer (and technology) is a tool, albeit a tool unlike others whereby it can transform life positively or negatively depending on it’s use or abuse. Well it’s like a hammer except it’s ‘soft’ i.e. malleable. Others have argued and also written on many aspects of software. I like to view software as malleable i.e. this Merriam definition;
a : capable of being altered or controlled by outside forces or influences
b : having a capacity for adaptive change

With this view, my research will explore these domains:-

Software Practice and Engineering
Organisation Operational Practice (cyber insurance)
IT Governance, Risk and Compliance
Data and Privacy Laws
Data and Information Visualisation
Supply Chain and Cyber Space (Internet)

So edisclosure/ediscovery is not on my agenda for my PhD research. However I do hope that the outcome of my research will provide useful tool(s) for edisclosure/ediscovery related issues.

As this site will be my only (public) blogging space, I will keep this blogging site as it is i.e. without any changes to the site name and description. From time to time, I will post news & tweets (via my twitters, @edisclosure and @insuredatarisk ) covering edisclosure/ediscovery and beyond into the above domains.

Thanks for reading this.
Cher

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Digital Investigations, E-Disclosure, Readiness Plans Guide

November 24, 2013 – 1:48 am

Back in 2008 I posted this ‘digital investigations and evidence’ blog. In that blog I mentioned Dr. Peter Sommer’s Guide to Forensic Readiness. This Guide has now been revised. The New (4th) edition in pdf is available at the IAAC site.

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