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Document Retention - How Long is Too Long?
darthtuttle asks: "With
the recent news of document destruction at Enron and the emails that have
been discovered in high profile cases such as MS -vs- DOJ document
retention seems to be a hot item right now. What document retention policies
do people have at their companies, and what steps do companies take to
make sure that documents are destroyed according to the policy when their
time is up so they don't come back to haunt the company later? Note: the
purpose of a document retention policy is not to keep documents, but to
make sure they get destroyed according to policy before someone outside
the company decides to use it against you. The big issues seems to be
backups and documents stored on peoples desktop/laptops. You don't
want those email server backup tapes from 2 years ago to be found, and
you don't want to find out that the CFO was saving -every- email they
ever got on their laptop."
I'm sure with the amount of money microsoft has they could either pay off someone or put a hit on someone in charge of this mess and get it over with for good.
All I have to say is that the lesser, darker races of Earth must be eliminated.
Why should corporations have privacy when they have the potential to ruin so many lives?
[o]_O
Hey, where's that article on slapdown about MyOSoft asking them to remove user comments or they'd sue slapdown using the new digital copyright law. Remember that?
Have they removed it?
HO! HO! HO!
MEEPT!!
How much do you wanna pay for them?