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Accused Child Kidnapper Kept Creepy Blog {Switched.com}
Aug 31st 2009 4:03PM Law enforcement authorities are already looking to social media to catch crooks, such as welfare and tax cheats. http://hack-igations.blogspot.com/2007/12/people-in-authority-sometimes-abuse.html --Ben
REPORT: Winnipeg police outed for manipulating red-light camera accident data. Again. {Autoblog}
Jul 8th 2009 11:02PM A voter referendum to ban red-light cameras is advancing to the ballot in College Station, Texas. Rally to be held July 16. http://legal-beagle.typepad.com/wrights_legal_beagle/2009/07/surveillance-technology-changes-law-enforcement.html --Ben
Red light cameras now check for insurance, too {WalletPop}
Jul 8th 2009 6:17PM A voter referendum to ban red-light cameras is advancing to the ballot in College Station, Texas. http://legal-beagle.typepad.com/wrights_legal_beagle/2009/07/surveillance-technology-changes-law-enforcement.html --Ben
Dennis Kozlowski's appeal rejected by Supreme Court {BloggingStocks}
Jun 30th 2009 6:38PM The Tyco International scandal shows why the use of electronic archival systems is making more and more sense. --Ben http://legal-beagle.typepad.com/wrights_legal_beagle/2008/08/e-discovery-strategy-search-artificial-intelligence.html
Obama wades into regulation of derivatives {Daily Finance}
May 13th 2009 7:00PM Treasury Secretary Geithner is calling for new record-keeping requirements for what he calls "non-standard" derivatives. Part of the issue with the recordation of derivatives is that technology (e-mail, text message and so on) has made the formation of legally-binding contracts (such as derivatives) very cheap and easy. Efforts to promote better documenation on derivatives will provoke massive new campaigns to capture, archive and comprehend electronic financial records. See Details: http://legal-beagle.typepad.com/wrights_legal_beagle/2009/03/record-keeping-in-financial-markets-to-soar.html --Ben
Confirmed: Obama Gets to Keep His BlackBerry {Switched.com}
Jan 23rd 2009 1:32PM Similar issues apply in state government. On account of Open Records Acts, state governments are wise to insist that employees (including governors) route all business e-mail through a central e-mail archive and to encourage employees to take all personal e-mail to personal accounts or separate devices. Detail: http://legal-beagle.typepad.com/wrights_legal_beagle/2008/08/local-government-e-mail-and-the-freedom-of-information-act.html --Ben
Your Online Reputation Is More Important Than You Think {Switched.com}
Jan 12th 2009 8:43PM To legally prevent an employer from using info from a social networking site, one might post terms of use that forbid such use. -Ben [The idea is not legal advice, but it is something to think about.]
More Than Four Million Health Records Breached in 2008 {Switched.com}
Dec 25th 2008 10:56PM Data breach notices have a scalability problem. As the number of notices soars, we need to better define what is a serious breach and what is not. Otherwise, the public drowns in breach notices, many of which are insignificant. --Ben http://hack-igations.blogspot.com/2007/12/does-lost-tape-equate-to-lost-data.html
Textflow parallel word processing app now in public beta {Download Squad}
Dec 1st 2008 11:27AM Collaborative software environments like Textflow, Acrobat.com, Zimbra and Zoho can create oceans of records on business interactions and negotiations. Those records can be fodder for e-discovery in a lawsuit. An issue businesses will face is whether to preserve those records under their record retention policies. --Ben http://hack-igations.blogspot.com/2008/02/collaboration-e-discovery-and-record.html
Verizon Employees Take Unauthorized Peek at Obama's Cell Phone Account {Switched.com}
Nov 22nd 2008 2:17PM It is astonishing how common these stories (so-called "secrets" of powerful people compromised) are becoming! They point up a larger, philosophical observation: In this age of information, the rich, the powerful and the authoritative surprisingly find that they can keep no secrets. Therefore putative secrets become liabilities. People with something to lose should operate on the assumption that they can keep no secrets. --Ben http://hack-igations.blogspot.com/2007/12/people-in-authority-sometimes-abuse.html
