200 Terabytes of Government Electronic Discovery Abuse
As originally published in Forbes (Apr. 20, 2011). In United States v. Faulkner (N.D. Tex. Dec. 28, 2010), the U.S. government accused 19 defendants of having participated in a criminal conspiracy over the course of seven years. The defendants are alleged to have created fraudulent companies to exceed authorized access to the victim companies’ computer.. read more →
Metadata, The Freedom of Information Act, and Government Hypocrisy
As originally published in Forbes (Apr. 11, 2011). Metadata matters. According to Applied Discovery, one of a variety of companies that delivers and manages electronic discovery services, metadata, or data that is embedded in electronic documents, can tell us precisely how and when an electronic document was created, modified, and transmitted. More poetically, “the document.. read more →