e-Discovery

http://ralphlosey.wordpress.com/2007/07/12/second-edition-of-the-sedona-principles-and-the-need-for-proportionality/

Second Edition of The Sedona Principles and the Need for Proportionality

... The new Principles can be downloaded for free at the Sedona website, so long as the copy is for your personal use only.

... To those who have studied the original Sedona Principles, relax, the 14 Principles remain the same, although they have been reworded somewhat.

... First, and most importantly, the second edition now ties directly into the new Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, most of which were significantly influenced by the Principles. The interface between the 14 Principles and the new rules is well explained. All of the Principle Commentaries have been updated and refined, but especially the Commentaries for Principle 12 on metadata, and Principle 14 on the imposition of sanctions. The Resources and Authorities provided with each Comment have been updated to include several new e-discovery cases and articles.

At least, read the comments.

http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/07/14/1328256&from=rss

Judge Says No to RIAA Subpoena Request

Posted by CowboyNeal on Saturday July 14, @11:14AM from the trials-and-tribulations dept. The Courts Music

NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "For at least the second time, a federal judge has dealt the RIAA's campaign against college students a blow by refusing an ex parte motion by the RIAA for a subpoena against college students. In Newport News, Virginia, Judge Walter D. Kelley, Jr., denied the RIAA's motion for information about students at the College of William and Mary. The Court denied the motion outright, saying it was unauthorized by law. (pdf) Last month it was reported that a New Mexico judge had denied a similar motion directed against University of New Mexico students on the ground that it should not have been made ex parte."

Remember this article next time someone says their laptops are password protected... I have more comments, but I'm laughing too hard to type...

http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/07/atm-reprogrammi.html

ATM Reprogramming Caper Hits Pennsylvania

By Kevin Poulsen EmailJuly 12, 2007 | 6:42:11 PMCategories: Crime

Police in Derry, Pennsylvania are baffled by a June ATM robbery in which an unidentified man wearing flip flops and shorts strolled into Mastrorocco's Market and reprogrammed the cash machine to think it was dispensing dollar bills instead of twenties.

Along with a female accomplice, the crook netted $1,540 in two visits on June 19 and 20, according to store owner Vince Mastrorocco. "They came in, they hit me the first day -- a man and a woman -- and they cleaned me out," Mastrorocco told THREAT LEVEL. "Then they came back the next day and cleaned me out again."

A sergeant with the Derry Borough Police Department they're still investigating the crime, and no arrests have been made.

Of course, THREAT LEVEL readers know exactly what happened. The machine was a Triton 9100, and like competitor Tranax, Triton printed its default administrative passcodes in its ATM service manuals, which have been widely available online. We reported on this last September after a Virginia Beach gas station ATM (a Tranax) got hit with the same hack.

The ATM in the Derry heist was owned by the store, but operated by a company called Cardtronics. COO Mike Clinard says in a statement that it was Mastrorocco's responsibility to change the passcode from its default, which is (I kid you not) 123456.

It's a start...

http://www.bespacific.com/mt/archives/015448.html

July 13, 2007

Center for Information Policy and Electronic Government Launched at University of Maryland

Press release: "The College of Information Studies at the University of Maryland is pleased to announce the launching of the Center for Information Policy and Electronic Government (CIPEG). CIPEG is a multidisciplinary research and educational center that focuses on the intersections between public policy and law, ethics, and trust as they affect the uses of information in society by individuals, organizations, and governments. Originally established in 1998 as the Center for Information Policy (CIP), CIPEG is jointly sponsored by the College of Information Studies and the School of Public Policy of the University of Maryland. The Center principals are Director Dr. Paul T. Jaeger, Associate Director for Educational Programs Stephen Hannestad, and Assistant Directors Dr. Ken Fleischmann and Dr. Jennifer Golbeck. The Center also has more than twenty members from within the University community. CIPEG draws on the expertise of its members in areas such as archival science, computer and information science, education, international relations, knowledge management, public policy, and science and technology studies. Research at CIPEG spans six key areas - Information Policy, Electronic Government, Information Ethics, Social Networks, Emergency Response and Recovery, and Equal Access to Information. Center faculty and staff have researched and published extensively in these areas. Research at CIPEG is grant-based, with Center principals having received funding from the National Science Foundation, the National Archives and Records Administration, the Department of Defense, the Information Security Oversight Office, the American Library Association, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, among others. [beSpacific author Sabrina I. Pacifici is an adjunct professor with CIPEG]

There are limits, but they spelled out the requirements at the site met them all. Perhaps there is hope for sites (and blogs) that point out that the Emperor has no clothes?

http://www.pogowasright.org/article.php?story=20070714090734631

De: Court: Grading a teacher on the Internet is legal

Saturday, July 14 2007 @ 09:07 AM CDT Contributed by: PrivacyNews News Section: Non-U.S. News

The District Court in Cologne has finally declared the grading of teachers at an Internet site legal. On Wednesday the judges overturned a temporary injunction that would have forced the operators of the Internet site Spickmich [something like "your cheat sheet" in German] to prevent a female teacher from being graded by pupils online (File Number: 28 O 263/07). With her name, school, and the subjects she teaches explicitly mentioned the pupil network had given the high school teacher from Moers (in the District of Wesel) an overall grade of 4.3 [on the grading scheme see below]. At Spickmich teachers can -- without their consent being required -- be graded in categories such as "sexy," "cool and funny" or "teaching style." The grades they receive range from 1 to 6 [which is the German equivalent of the A to F scheme].

Source - Heise