Personal Information on the Copy Machine

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

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> From: Bob Frankston <bob2-39 () bobf frankston com>
> Date: April 22, 2010 8:22:14 PM EDT
> To: dave () farber net, 'ip' <ip () v2 listbox com>
> Cc: 'Mary Hodder' <mary () dabble com>
> Subject: RE: [IP] Personal Information on the Copy Machine

> There are two issues here. Once is simply an extension of dumpster  
> diving.
>
> The other is the legal question of what is discoverable. Wait till  
> people discover that voice mail is backed up.
>
> Came across http://lawyersusaonline.com/dcdicta/2010/04/19/technical-difficulties-at-the-supreme-court-2/ 
>  via a tweet from Mary Hodder. As usual IANAL but this does raise  
> interesting questions about the expectations of privacy.
>
> There is a related issue about what’s personal in a workspace. The c 
> lassic notion seems to be that you are 100% owned by your employer o 
> n premises with the possible exception of the bathroom. But if you m 
> ake a copy of your medical record – an incidental expense that few w 
> ould begrudge, does it become a public document if it can be retriev 
> ed from the hard drive?
>
> Are all employer/employee relationships necessarily extremely  
> asymmetric? If one can work at home or at the office there is a  
> different kind of relationships in which I am providing a result  
> using available facilities. Many mechanics own their own tools and  
> now it makes sense to use their own computers and phones.
>
> How is the legal system coping with reasonable comingling?
>
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> From: Dave Farber [mailto:dfarber () me com]
> Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2010 13:30
> To: ip
> Subject: [IP] Personal Information on the Copy Machine
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> Begin forwarded message:
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> From: lynn <lynn () ecgincc com>
> Date: April 22, 2010 1:10:35 PM EDT
> To: dave () farber net
> Subject: Personal Information on the Copy Machine
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> http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-31727_162-20002884-10391695.html
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> Personal Information on the Copy Machine
>
> At a warehouse in New Jersey, 6,000 used copy machines sit ready to be
> sold. CBS News chief investigative correspondent Armen Keteyian  
> reports
> almost every one of them holds a secret.
>
> Nearly every digital copier built since 2002 contains a hard drive -  
> like
> the one on your personal computer - storing an image of every document
> copied, scanned, or emailed by the machine.
>
> In the process, it's turned an office staple into a digital time-bomb
> packed with highly-personal or sensitive data.
>
> If you're in the identity theft business it seems this would be a  
> pot of
> gold.
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