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The New York State Bar Association concluded that lawyers could use gmail and comply with the duty of confidentiality despite the fact that email is ’scanned’ by Google to place contextual ads. The committee warned that this sort of unthinking, automated review was proper, but not human review. N.Y.

Nat’l Economic Research Assocs., Inc. v. Evans, LECG Corp., 21 Mass. L. Rptr. 337 (Mass. Super. Ct. Aug. 3, 2006) is a fascinating case in various ways, and just came to my attention. Apparently, when a user views mail on yahoo, it takes a screenshot of the mail which is stored on the hard drive.

We all know that IT often has a privileged access to business decisions long before they are presented internally or externally.  Computer Weekly is reporting on a Marks and Spencer employee who faces dismissal after 25 years of loyal service for leaking information to a newspaper regarding the reduction of severance pay the company was in the process of implementing.

Coming closer to the six months barrier since I got things started, here I go again sharing with you folks the progress weekly report on my new reality of giving up on e-mail, corporate e-mail, that is.

Coming closer to the six months barrier since I got things started, here I go again sharing with you folks the progress weekly report on my new reality of giving up on e-mail, corporate e-mail, that is.

An IT guy has been busted for insider trading after gaining info while snooping on an exec's email; see Financial Times web site. Insider trading is illegal but how confidential are emails. Many organisations state in their policies that emails are not confidential.

Adrienne LaFlamme (06/25/08 - Initial BBT Report) Adrienne Laflamme, a 60-year-old science at the Brevard County Juvenile Detention Center, in Florida has been arrested on 15 counts of unlawful sex with minors and one count of filing a false police Adrienne LaFlamme - 60-year old school teacher Adrienne LaFlamme, pictured below, was arrested on 15 counts of sex with a minor student.

Colorado has addressed whether lawyers can review metadata sent by opposing counsel outside the context of discovery. The summary states: A Sending Lawyer who transmits electronic documents or files has a duty to use reasonable care to guard against the disclosure of metadata containing Confidential Information.

Cell phone bills can contains many useful information about the text messages sent, calls made and every SMS activity. You will be able to find everything laid out in a very detailed manner, including the phone number of the person whom you sent a message to or called, the date and time of the conversation, as well as the duration of the call.

Freeware. It’s very easy to encrypt with this: Camtech 2000 Encryptor. Version 1.0 [Version One]. It converts plain text to a string of zeros and ones. It will work with computer operating systems other than those mentioned.