My video interview about business risks concerning Internet Privacy Policies is very timely since Google just announced a radical change in its Privacy Policies. You are welcome to view the video interview “Privacy Policies: What You Don’t Know Can Hurt You” thanks to my friends at Financial Management Network (& parent SmartPros Ltd.).

Of course Privacy Policies is a common topic for me as my October 2011 monthly Technology Law column at eCommerce Times was entitled “Shore Up Your Privacy Policy Before Disaster Strikes” and included discussion about:

• What Type of Information Do Privacy Policies Protect? - Personally Identifiable Information (PII)
• Website Privacy Regulation – US (FTC), EU, Canada, and Japan
• What Should Your Privacy Policy Contain? – consider your visitors’ expectations
• Aggregate Data - DoubleClick
• Consider Subscribing to Privacy Standards – TRUSTe, Better Business Bureau, Online Privacy Alliance, and CPA WebTrust Program.

Stay tuned for more blogs on Internet Privacy since it is core to business and consumer utilization of the Internet.

Background:

VIDEO – Privacy Policies: What You Don’t Know Can Hurt You
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For anyone interested I wanted to post the latest e-discovery zone interview of Judge David Waxse from the ABA Techshow. The e-Discovery Zone is a show put on every now and then with Tom O’Connor and Browning Marean, through TechLaw Solutions.

Original Title: Latest E-Discovery Zone Video Interview With Judge David Waxse
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In short, as the world increasingly uses computers for communications and tracking information, evidence in lawsuits is increasingly found on computers and other electronic media. Now consider how each document might have multiple versions, each email includes a copy of the message it replies to, how quickly documents and emails can be created, and how quickly the amount of information can be duplicated as its sent back-and-forth or copied to new locations.

Parties in litigation can’t afford to pay their attorneys to analyze the equivalent of 100,000 pages on a computer, and attorneys are required to scan documents for privileged or relevant information during the litigation discovery process. So when a party in a lawsuit tells the attorney it can’t afford to pay $80,000 in legal fees just to analyze all the documents and emails stored on a computer system, what should the lawyer do? This is the question that courts and attorneys are wrestling with, as they have been adopting new rules and procedures to handle these new challenges.

What happens when I delete a file?

Steve Burgess explains what’s left over when a file is deleted, and what happens when it is created?

Deleted data is becoming a bigger issue, especially in cases where one party is attempting to destroy evidence. For example, a number of white collar criminal cases have involved executives attempting to destroy data. Sometimes the email destruction is attempted by simply deleting the file, sometimes hard drives are reformatted, and sometimes special software tools are used to delete and overwrite the incriminating data.

In this video, Steve Burgess explains the basics of deleting data, and why a file that is deleted is not necessarily gone.

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Steve Burgess is a computer forensics expert. He can be reached at Burgess Forensics.