{"id":1059,"date":"2009-07-17T09:16:55","date_gmt":"2009-07-17T17:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=1059"},"modified":"2009-07-17T09:29:10","modified_gmt":"2009-07-17T17:29:10","slug":"electronic-eternity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/?p=1059","title":{"rendered":"Electronic Eternity"},"content":{"rendered":"

From\u00a0the Useful Spam Department<\/em>\u00a0:\u00a0 I got an advertisement from a robot at “complianceonline.com” that\u00a0works for a business addressing the\u00a0problem of data retention on the web from the corporate point of view.\u00a0<\/p>\n

We've all read plenty about the dangers of teenagers publishing their party revels only to find themselves rejected by a university snooping on their Facebook account.\u00a0 But it's important to remember that the same issues affect business and government as well, as the complianceonline robot points out:<\/p>\n

“Avoid Documentation ‘Time Bombs’<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Your own communications and documents can be used against you.<\/p>\n

“Lab books, project and design history files, correspondence including e-mails, websites, and marketing literature may all contain information that can compromise a company and it's regulatory compliance. Major problems with the U.S. FDA and\/or in lawsuits have resulted from careless or inappropriate comments or even inaccurrate opinions being “voiced” by employees in controlled or retained documents. Opinionated or accusatory E-mails have been written and sent, where even if deleted, still remain in the public domain where they can effectively “last forever”.<\/p>\n

“In this electronic age of My Space, Face Book, Linked In, Twitter, Blogs and similar instant communication, derogatory information about a company and its products can be published worldwide, and “go viral”, whether based on fact or not. Today one's ‘opinion’ carries the same weight as ‘fact’.”<\/p>\n

This is all pretty predictable and even banal, but then we get to the gem:\u00a0 the company offers a webinar on “Electronic Eternity”.\u00a0 I like the\u00a0rubric.\u00a0 I\u00a0think “Electronic Eternity” is one of the things we should question.\u00a0 Do we really need to accept that it is inevitable?\u00a0 Whose interest does it serve?\u00a0 I can't see any stakeholder who benefits except, perhaps, the archeologist.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Perhaps everything should have a half-life unless a good\u00a0argument can be made for preserviing it.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Digital information should have a half-life unless a good argument can be made for preserviing it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[70,6,17,71],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}