Email storage and legal requirements

re: Email storage and legal requirements

Norman Diamond — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 03:49:15 GMT

"With all of the legal requirements surrounding email archiving, authorities would be able to search through all his email records"

I doubt that very much. I believe the following part of what you said: "it became law to keep copies of all corporate communication". Corporate communication and government communication are two separate worlds. The government controls corporate communication, the government does not control government communication.

Even if the CIA e-mailed copies of its torture videos, it would not be required to archive the e-mail, because "the company" is not a company, it's a government agency.

I gave documents to the FBI in 2005 and the FBI destroyed them in 1990. The FBI didn't say what technology they used in accomplishing this, but they have a court ruling authorizing this odd retention policy.

Other government agencies destroy documents at will.

re: Email storage and legal requirements

tzink — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 09:42:07 GMT

How did the FBI destroy documents 15 years before you gave them to them?

re: Email storage and legal requirements

Norman Diamond — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 03:46:33 GMT

"How did the FBI destroy documents 15 years before you gave them to them?"

I already told you nearly everything they told me about it:

'The FBI didn't say what technology they used in accomplishing this, but they have a court ruling authorizing this odd retention policy.'

I suppose I could look for their letter and type it in exactly (they said which court gave them permission to do this).

re: Email storage and legal requirements

Norman Diamond — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 04:00:20 GMT

Oh neat. A letter came from the US Department of "Justice" dated March 18, 2008, the same date as this blog posting. Part of their weasel wording avoids saying whether they had told the truth about destroying documents 15 years before I gave them to them. Another part of their weasel wording still implies that the US government does not require the US government to retain evidence.

With Sarbanes-Oxley the US government still only controls US corporations and not the US government.