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Thursday, September 25th, 2008
"E-mail is the digital formalin of the 21st century" - Lance Michalson
[Formalin n. a colourless solution of formaldehyde in water used as a preservative for biological specimens etc." - OED 9th ed.]
Background
Email has become the life-blood of most companies. It has replaced paper based and verbal communications as the single ...
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Tuesday, September 16th, 2008
Many organisations want to destroy original paper documents and rely upon the information in image form as evidence of business activities. The question that is frequently asked is this: Can physical source documents (e.g. paper) be destroyed after being imaged and will an imaged document stand up in court? There ...
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Saturday, September 6th, 2008
This is an index of the legal resources related to the Promotion of Access to Information Act 2 of 2000 as at 6 September 2008.
General
[EH van Coller De Jure (2006) 39(1) p163 - "Transparency and Access to Documents: A General Principle of European Community Law?"]
[M Richter LDD (2005) 9/2 p219 ...
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Sunday, November 4th, 2007
There are different reasons why organisations destroy records. Every time you do so, does not necessarily mean that you are breaking the law. The reasons include the following:
Routine records destruction programs.
Manual cleaning of the files: Many companies "clean up" their e-mail periodically by asking employees to clean out their inboxes ...
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Thursday, October 25th, 2007
There is currently no definition of "record" that is universally used by all organisations. The simple reason for this is that definitions serve the community that they are created by and each community has different needs.
Whilst not in itself a law, the South African National Standard on Records Management (SANS ...
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Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007
E-mail archiving compliance is not solved by technology alone. It merges information technology issues, legal issues, business issues and records management issues that can briefly be summarised as follows:[private]
Information technology issues: The use of technology solutions to help manage e-mail;
Legal issues: Understanding which laws impact on the way that information ...
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Thursday, August 9th, 2007
E-mail archiving is often confused with backups. The primary goal of backing up is the preservation of server-based data to protect against data loss from server related problems, whereas the primary goal of e-mail archiving is to protect records which the law, the company or best practice requires be retained.
There ...
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Friday, January 23rd, 2004
"We will have to learn, before understanding any task, to first ask the question, "What information ...
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