Wednesday, March 13, 2002

Email after Enron

Following Andersen's unsuccessful attempts to remove documents related to their audit work for Enron, Jim Carroll considers the legal and technological issues pertaining to a form of correspondence that is almost impossible to erase without trace. Furthermore, "e-mail is particularly risky when it comes to legal issues, since people will say things in e-mail that they might not normally put on paper. There's an informality with e-mail that can often be misconstrued in a legal situation."
(From Canoe Tech News)

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