Dominic Jaar recently contributed to “Electronic Evidence”, edited by Stephen Mason. This book provides a multijurisdictional (11 countries and territories) analysis of the main issues in electronic evidence: sources, characteristics, proof (investigation, collection, examination), authenticity, management and presentation of electronic evidence, as well as a review of legal issues: admissibility, privilege, hearsay… Dominic was responsible for the Canadian section of the “Practical management of electronic evidence” chapter. The various stages of E-discovery are explained from a bijuridictional point of view: preservation of evidence, litigation hold letter, data gathering, review, etc… The technological aspects of e-discovery are also given good consideration and thorough explanations: metadata, indexation, OCR, deduplication, deNISTing… The complete reference is Stephen Mason (ed.), Electronic Evidence, 2nd ed. (Lexis Nexis: Markham, 2010); ISBN: 978-1405749121; Lexis Nexis; WorldCat.
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Dominic Jaar contributes to a collective work on Electronic Evidence
Friday, August 6th, 2010Compliance vs. Hard drives in printers, photocopiers and scanners
Thursday, May 13th, 2010Here is a news report that explains well something we have been telling our clients for a while now. Multifunction machines, scanners, printers, photocopiers, etc. contain hard drives which capture ALL documents that run through them, unless you take action!
This means that any confidential (personal information, privileged material, commercial and industrial secrets, etc.) information contained on the documents you print, copy or scan on a daily basis are retained on the hard drive contained in the machine unless it is wiped or set not to record images. That means, in many cases, you and/or your organisation are violating different statutes and regulations every day… As explained in this news report, this situation is exacerbated when you decommission these machines and give or sell them to third parties who, in turn, send them abroad to be reused or recycled:
