I own a small company that among other things helps implement e-mail archiving systems for compliance. Some information:
1. The archiving of e-mail applies only to company e-mail. ALL e-mail inside a company is considered to be owned by the company and is NOT private! (If you check your AOL account at work and it's not blocked this isn't company mail.) If you're using your work e-mail you have no privacy. As to spam, not spam etc. If it's caught by a spam filter at the firewall and the user doesn't see it it's spam and doesn't need to be kept. IF it makes it to the user, it isn't spam, (even if it really is;)
2. There are specific regulations applying to trading firms, (such as SEC 17a-4 and NASD blah,) but more general legislation such as Sarbanes Oxley can also be interpreted to apply to archiving and making searchable electronic records such as e-mail. This really isn't any different than keeping memos or other paper records that have been generated in companies and kept in archives for years.
3. Having a policy for what to keep for how long as far as electronic records is good, but it's not the whole battle. You need to document why you choose a given amount of time to keep a record, how you kept it, (can it be altered? Can it be eraseed without anyone knowing it?) How you're auditing those records. (E-mail was deleted after 7 years, prove it!) And how you can prove nothing was lost. It's just doing your homework.
4. This is all actually an opportunity for companies to save money, right now, most companies keep everything the employee doesn't delete until they leave and the account is deleted. Why keep potentially damaging information that's taking up space and costing money for storage if you don't have to? Also if a company is sued and an employee is for instance accused of sexual harassment through e-mail, it's an easy matter to check isn't it? It'll stand up in court, something e-mail wouldn't do if it isn't really being turned into a record.
As a former employee of DoubleClick I can help you with some info here. Doubleclick maintains a network of sites that they don't host, but merely provide all advertising for. The network is pretty large and I'll guarantee you've hit thier sites before.
Doubleclick when I was there wasn't matching cookies to names and addresses because they knew people would holler like mad if they thought they could be tracked down like that.
I don't think you really have to worry about getting junk mail or anything as a result of the info they have. Then again that may have changed in the year since I worked for them, who knows.
If you look to car audio there are a number of products coming out or out that play MP3's recorded on CD's. From there it won't be a big leap to portable consumer electronics using CD's.
For all the love people seem to have for Sony's Mini Disks, they aren't as good as mp3's on a CD. You also really don't see that many of them. You can hold better than 10 audio cd's compressed and saved to a CD-R. I can take that same disk and put it in my computer at home, which you can't do with the Mini-Disk. More Music on a single medium, CD-R disks can be had for less than $1 a disk, and now they even make CD-RW so that you could have rewritable CD's if you want. (Although with CD's at a dollar a disk I wouldn't bother) It just seems to me that MP3 on CD is a better medium.
Mini-Disk is great for Sony but MP3 on CD is better for the consumer.
I'm building an MP3 player for my car and wanted an LCD display. I came upon the same idea of using an old laptop display. What you need to do is disassemble the laptop, scavenge the LCD, and buy a controller board. It will run around $200 for a PCI controller board and $50 for a connection kit. You look at the type of display and check the website, www.sageinc.com look at their board products and contact sales. I have a 166mhz pentium mmx with a 10.5" LCD hooked up that I'm encoding all my MP3's on and I haven't had any trouble at all with it. If you have any questions e-mail me at ardinos@yahoo.com
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I own a small company that among other things helps implement e-mail archiving systems for compliance. Some information:
1. The archiving of e-mail applies only to company e-mail. ALL e-mail inside a company is considered to be owned by the company and is NOT private! (If you check your AOL account at work and it's not blocked this isn't company mail.) If you're using your work e-mail you have no privacy. As to spam, not spam etc. If it's caught by a spam filter at the firewall and the user doesn't see it it's spam and doesn't need to be kept. IF it makes it to the user, it isn't spam, (even if it really is;)
2. There are specific regulations applying to trading firms, (such as SEC 17a-4 and NASD blah,) but more general legislation such as Sarbanes Oxley can also be interpreted to apply to archiving and making searchable electronic records such as e-mail. This really isn't any different than keeping memos or other paper records that have been generated in companies and kept in archives for years.
3. Having a policy for what to keep for how long as far as electronic records is good, but it's not the whole battle. You need to document why you choose a given amount of time to keep a record, how you kept it, (can it be altered? Can it be eraseed without anyone knowing it?) How you're auditing those records. (E-mail was deleted after 7 years, prove it!) And how you can prove nothing was lost. It's just doing your homework.
4. This is all actually an opportunity for companies to save money, right now, most companies keep everything the employee doesn't delete until they leave and the account is deleted. Why keep potentially damaging information that's taking up space and costing money for storage if you don't have to? Also if a company is sued and an employee is for instance accused of sexual harassment through e-mail, it's an easy matter to check isn't it? It'll stand up in court, something e-mail wouldn't do if it isn't really being turned into a record.
As a former employee of DoubleClick I can help you with some info here. Doubleclick maintains a network of sites that they don't host, but merely provide all advertising for. The network is pretty large and I'll guarantee you've hit thier sites before.
Doubleclick when I was there wasn't matching cookies to names and addresses because they knew people would holler like mad if they thought they could be tracked down like that.
I don't think you really have to worry about getting junk mail or anything as a result of the info they have. Then again that may have changed in the year since I worked for them, who knows.
If you look to car audio there are a number of products coming out or out that play MP3's recorded on CD's. From there it won't be a big leap to portable consumer electronics using CD's.
For all the love people seem to have for Sony's Mini Disks, they aren't as good as mp3's on a CD. You also really don't see that many of them. You can hold better than 10 audio cd's compressed and saved to a CD-R. I can take that same disk and put it in my computer at home, which you can't do with the Mini-Disk. More Music on a single medium, CD-R disks can be had for less than $1 a disk, and now they even make CD-RW so that you could have rewritable CD's if you want. (Although with CD's at a dollar a disk I wouldn't bother) It just seems to me that MP3 on CD is a better medium.
Mini-Disk is great for Sony but MP3 on CD is better for the consumer.
I'm building an MP3 player for my car and wanted an LCD display. I came upon the same idea of using an old laptop display. What you need to do is disassemble the laptop, scavenge the LCD, and buy a controller board. It will run around $200 for a PCI controller board and $50 for a connection kit. You look at the type of display and check the website, www.sageinc.com look at their board products and contact sales. I have a 166mhz pentium mmx with a 10.5" LCD hooked up that I'm encoding all my MP3's on and I haven't had any trouble at all with it. If you have any questions e-mail me at ardinos@yahoo.com