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Where did you leave that data?
There's some new US legislation that could hit businesses hard in the future, according to Techworld.com – even if they're not in the US. In essense, "Companies must keep much better records of all their electronic information from now on following US Supreme Court amendments to federal rules in April that began on 1 December [2006]. They require any company involved in a federal lawsuit to produce any relevant electronically stored information in the discovery process."

And why would this affect UK Plc? Techworld explains the conundrum: "Any UK business with activities in the US could be affected by the legislation and will need to collate all its relevant electronically-stored information, from employee photos through PowerPoint decks to emails and instant messages."

Looks like it's time to go through those 1,895 un-read emails in your inbox at long last...

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