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Legal Watch
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Exposing legal land mines: protecting the privacy and integrity of e-records is a critical issue for information professionals; understanding e-records laws and company policies can help.
The legal landscape is changing rapidly with the passage of new laws whose intent is to bring technology under control through the legal system. These new laws provide guidance not only on what is considered an electronic record or electronic signature but also on how these technologies should create and maintain data to meet legal evidentiary requirements and ensure its privacy.
The new laws cover a wide variety of complex issues, but there is one that is most important: the privacy of collected information, both on the Internet and within corporate systems. What these laws do not address is the hidden legal menace of spoliation -- the intentional or unintentional dest...See the full content of this document
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