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15
Dec
2009
22 Million Missing White House Emails. Very strange!
In 2007, two Washington, D.C. watchdog groups sued the White House for the release of millions of official emails that went mysteriously missing under President George W. Bush. Now, the White House has agreed to release the emails. The emails run from 2003 to 2005, covering some of Bush’s biggest scandals and decisions, from the outing of CIA official Valerie Plame to the early days of the Iraq War. The deal will not see all emails from that period restored, but only those from 94 specific dates, some of which were chosen at random. The Washington Post reports that this is because restoring the emails from old backup tapes is an expensive and time-consuming process. They will not be available to the public until 2014 or later.
CREW’s Melanie Sloan: Millions of White House Emails Missing
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29
Jun
2009
Cloud Computing Carries Legal Risks Warns Sandy Hutchens
Sandy Hutchens says there are extra precautions that businesses and services need to consider when adopting cloud computing. Scalable resources provided over the internet carry security, legal access and data backup issues.
Your data may be compromised and you may not have a backup copy of sensitive data.Check your security protocols as well as how your data is processed so that you can move fast and retrieve your data in the case of emergency. Also end-users need the flexibility to determine how their data is processed.
Sandy Hutchens advises that vendors should properly market their services so that end-users will know they are secure. End users need the ability to retrieve their data as well as they need to.
Data portability is the talk of the Tech Industry but it is a thing of the future which continues to put the onus of data portability on customers. Service providers need to reassure their clients about security issues including threats from hackers and any electronic issues that could suddenly arise.
Network-based storage of data needs to meet requirements for the protection of data for the correct legal time period so that it can be produced in the event of legal action.
Government requests or court orders should make vendors pause and consider carefully if they have the functionality in the event that such a situation should arise.
For those who would like to learn more about cloud computing Sandy Hutchens has provided a video.
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