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The difference between truth and ediscovery

Startups are addictive. When you set a milestone and then meet it, it's like a rush of adrenaline. I'm on my third startup, a company focused on enterprise-class content indexing, and I still remember clearly the excitement I felt years ago when we first started receiving an influx of calls from law firms after announcing our ability to directly index backup tapes.

The privacy trap: Privacy obligations owed to employees

When handling personal information about employees, Australian private sector employers haven’t had to concern themselves too much with obligations imposed by the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) (Privacy Act) because of the application of the ‘employee records exemption’.

Crimefighters seek a digital advantage

As an Australian police officer prepares to encounter a suspected terrorist or criminal gang member, arrayed on his or her iPad mini screen are the up to the minute results of a comprehensive search of more than 1000 federal, state and territory police databases detailing all essential facts about the individual. This may not be the case today, but is the future aim of a major IT collaboration and consolidation program underway at the Australian Crime Commission (ACC). IDM spoke with Chief Information Officer Narelle Lovett to learn more about the quest.

Governance gap revealed in industry survey

A survey of senior IT executives at 481 organizations in the US and UK on topics related to information governance has found that while almost all have a formal information governance program currently in place or are in the planning stages, only 40% of organizations are “high performers”.

Objective signs $A10M Defence ECM contract

Objective Corporation has been awarded a new contract with IBM to deliver a key component of the Australian Department of Defence's End User Compute (EUC) Program. The EUC Program is one of several initiatives designed to establish a dependable, secure and integrated Single Information Environment (SIE) to support Defence business and military operations

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