Linked – Mad about Metadata
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Linked – Mad about Metadata

Craig asks: “There are different considerations for database content and the rare proprietary system; but, for your run-of-the-mill Windows or Mac operating system, this is just common sense that seems to be uncommonly absent. I ask you, Dear Reader, what moves lawyers to be so obtuse about something that is so freaking easy to understand…

Linked – The First Rule of Microsoft Excel—Don’t Tell Anyone You’re Good at It
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Linked – The First Rule of Microsoft Excel—Don’t Tell Anyone You’re Good at It

Are you great with Excel? Do you feel this way about it? “If someone tells you that they ‘just have a few Excel sheets’ that they want help with, run the other way,” tweeted 32-year-old statistician Andrew Althouse. “Also, you may want to give them a fake phone number, possibly a fake name. It may…

Linked – Adapting eDiscovery Tools for Smarter Post-Data Breach Reviews
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Linked – Adapting eDiscovery Tools for Smarter Post-Data Breach Reviews

It actually makes perfect sense to use your existing eDiscovery tools to assist with any type of investigation that requires you to find things in a large set of data. It’s, literally, what they are built to do. Heck, I think back to years ago when one of the attorneys I worked with loaded all…

Linked – Former Google In-House Discovery Leader Says It’s Important to Invest in People Before Tech
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Linked – Former Google In-House Discovery Leader Says It’s Important to Invest in People Before Tech

You know, we could ask the same question at many corporate law departments, and also at law firms. “When I came to Google my hypothesis was, what would happen if you really invested in the people?” she said. “And then I went out and found those people.” Often, eDiscovery is an offshoot of something else….

Linked – Sweden leaked every car owners’ details last year, then tried to hush it up
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Linked – Sweden leaked every car owners’ details last year, then tried to hush it up

This seems like the kind of information you’d want to be super careful with, yet apparently, it’s exactly the sort of information that was sent in email, to a bunch of subscribers who weren’t supposed to have it. “The story goes back to 2015, when Sweden’s transport agency awarded IBM a contract to manage its…

Linked – Wetherspoon deleted its customer email database in possible preparation for GDPR
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Linked – Wetherspoon deleted its customer email database in possible preparation for GDPR

This is an interesting approach – “At least one company is looking to remove as much risk as possible. According to Wired, Wetherspoon has simply deleted all of the email addresses from their marketing database. Instead, the company plans on marketing via social media channels, including its Facebook and Twitter accounts, as well as its…