[88023] in Cypherpunks
Re: Corporate Access to Keys (CAK) Considered Harmful
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Pomes)
Fri Oct 10 16:57:38 1997
From: Paul Pomes <ppomes@Qualcomm.com>
In-reply-to: Your message of Fri, 10 Oct 1997 09:50:56 PDT.
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To: cypherpunks@algebra.com
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 1997 13:05:53 -0700
Reply-To: Paul Pomes <ppomes@Qualcomm.com>
At 9:50 PDT on Friday, October 10, 1997, Tim May wrote:
|I don't think we've yet seen a good example of massive amounts of e-mail
|being examined in a "discovery" process, yet, but we saw the effects on IBM
|during its antitrust issues in the 70s. Basically, every scrap of paper,
|every desk calendar, every internal memo, everything, had to be turned over
|to opposing counsel.
|
|We will almost certainly see some examples of where lawyers demand access
|to all company e-mail.
Several lawsuits about discriminatory denial of tenure have been won partly
based on the contents of email. The University of Illinois periodically
reminds all staff that email is considered a public record and that they
should conduct their business with that in mind.
/pbp
