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DOE staff use personal email like Hillary did

Former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton isn’t the only one who used a personal email account to conduct government business, with sole discretion over which emails she kept or deleted. US Department of Energy employees routinely use private email accounts for public business and decide on their own which emails to keep or delete, according to the DOE Office of Inspector General. The US government employs more than 13,000 people at the department.

John Keys cleared over text message deletion

New Zealand’s Chief Archivist Marilyn Little has released the report of her review into Prime Minister John Key’s record-keeping practices in regard to text messages.

Preventing Information Chaos with Unstructured Data

At the recent Chief Data Officer Summit in Melbourne, Veritas Senior Vice President Greg Muscarella presented a session on The Importance of Gaining Insight into Your Unstructured Data. Afterwards, IDM asked Greg to outline some of his recommendations. Greg leads Product Management and Engineering for the Veritas Information Intelligence team where he is responsible for products such as Data Insight, Information Map, Enterprise Vault and Enterprise Vault.cloud, and the eDiscovery Platform powered by Clearwell.

The Critical Importance of Protecting Intellectual Property

The value of intellectual property was $US329 billion worldwide in 2013, accounting for 1.5% of the $US22.2 trillion of the financial flows tracked by the World Trade Organization. In the United States, the $US128 billion in intellectual property (royalty and licensing income) generated by US companies accounted for 5.6% of the $US2.28 trillion in US exports, making intellectual property revenues second only to food and agriculture exports.

Why JSON is better than XML

The world’s digital infrastructure is currently characterized by a plethora of data interchange formats. It’s not the least bit surprising that such a multiplicity undergirds things at the moment. The internet is scarcely a generation old, while the “Internet of Things” and “Big Data” more closely resemble regulative ideals than realities. But I nonetheless believe that there are strong, discernible historical tendencies currently at work in this field, tendencies that strongly favour JSON over others.

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