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Personal Information on the Copy Machine
From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 20:40:18 -0400
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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? From: Dave Farber [mailto:dfarber () me com] Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2010 13:30 To: ip Subject: [IP] Personal Information on the Copy Machine Begin forwarded message: 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 http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-31727_162-20002884-10391695.html Personal Information on the Copy Machine At a warehouse in New Jersey, 6,000 used copy machines sit ready to besold. CBS News chief investigative correspondent Armen Keteyian reportsalmost every one of them holds a secret.Nearly every digital copier built since 2002 contains a hard drive - likethe 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 ofgold. snip Archives <image001.jpg> <image002.png>
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