To dispel the FUD about this, the "law" is dealing with the 2006 Amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure addressing discovery of electronically stored information. Link to pdf http://tinyurl.com/htarf review.
Secondly, if you are presented with a properly written subpoena, you do have rules to live by, e.g., Electronic Communications Privacy Act or 1986. Frank Muto President/CEO FSM Marketing Group, Inc ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tim Kerns" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "WISPA General List" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, December 01, 2006 4:43 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] New Recording LAW in effect today? > As a common carrier I can understand and agree. What about providing E-mail > services to our customers, do we then need to keep copies of all e-mail that > comes into or goes out our server? > > Tim Kerns > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Blair Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "WISPA General List" <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, December 01, 2006 11:45 AM > Subject: Re: [WISPA] New Recording LAW in effect today? > > >> We are common carriers. We no more have to copy peoples e-mail than the >> phone company has to record the contents of every call. >> >> Tim Kerns wrote: >> >>> I caught a brief report on FoxNews today about a requirement for keeping >>> copies of E-mail. It seems that we may be required to maintain a copy for >>> use at later time for criminal courts. Anyone know of this or have more >>> info on it? Is it every ISP or only Corporations. This could be >>> disasterious..... sell alot of storage devices... The Foxnews report says >>> the requirement begins today and as usual not a lot of detail. >>> >>> Tim Kerns >>> CV-Access, Inc. >>> >> >> >> -- >> Blair Davis >> -- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
