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Summary – “Retention of Accounting Records: A Global Survey of Laws and Regulations”

Written by William Saffady, Ph.D, FAI on November 4, 2019. Posted in Compliance, Financial, Legal, Retention.

This article summarizes a report published by AIEF on June 3, 2019. Additionally, the article is included in Information Management Magazine, ARMA-AIEF Special Edition, which will be available for download in mid-November. A printed version of the...

ARMA, AIEF Collaborate for Special Edition of IM Magazine

Written by ARMA International on October 31, 2019. Posted in Education, News & Analysis.

ARMA International and the ARMA International Educational Foundation (AIEF) are pleased to announce their collaboration on Information Management Magazine, ARMA-AIEF Special Edition, published in mid-November. Download the free PDF format. Purchase...

Anonymization & Pseudonymization as Tools for Cross-Border Discovery Compliance

Written by David Cohen on October 16, 2019. Posted in Compliance, Discovery / eDiscovery, Europe, Legal, Privacy.

Introduction Companies that conduct business internationally, and their lawyers, today face a significant challenge balancing U.S. discovery demands against the requirements of Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Most U.S. courts...

New Cohasset/ARMA Benchmarking Report Says ‘We Aren’t There Yet’

Written by ARMA International on September 25, 2019. Posted in Information Governance, Metrics, Review.

ARMA International and Cohasset Associates are excited to announce the 2019 Information Governance Benchmarking Report. In 1999, Cohasset Associates launched the survey, which has tracked the evolution of the information profession over the past two...

Eisen’s Book on Rule-Writing Delivers on its ‘How-To’ Promises

Written by Jeff Whited on September 17, 2019. Posted in Communications, Leadership & Management Skills, Review.

Usually I pick up a how-to book only if it’s in the way of a book I want to read, but Lewis S. Eisen’s How to Write Rules That People Want to Follow (Pixley Press) conquered my bias rather quickly. Here are four reasons I’d recommend the book to anyone...

Will Google Play Fair in the ‘Privacy Sandbox?’

Written by Jeff Whited on September 6, 2019. Posted in Analytics, Compliance, Information Security (Information Protection), News & Analysis, Privacy, Search.

On August 22, Justin Schuh, a director on Google’s Chrome Engineering team, introduced the company’s plans for a “privacy sandbox,” a colorful title for its initiative that purports to strengthen web privacy. The news appeared on Google’s blog in...

Can Information Management Policies Be Both Clear and Concise?

Written by Lewis S. Eisen on August 13, 2019. Posted in Communications, Featured, Leadership & Management Skills, Process Management.

Most information management (IM) professionals would agree that well-written policies are clear and concise. Too often, though, the policies are “dumbed down” because someone is afraid that maybe, somewhere, some individual in the organization...

Managing Legacy Paper Files in the Digital Era

Written by ARMA International on August 8, 2019. Posted in Capture, Data Storage, Digital Preservation, Imaging, Physical Records Management, Scanning.

Addressing your organization’s legacy paper files and capturing them in your digital information ecosystem may feel like a daunting task. As discussed in our recent white paper, capture is the first step in the information lifecycle and is essential...

Sorting Through the Whirlwind of News on the Proposed Equifax Settlement and Capital One Breach

Written by ARMA International on August 2, 2019. Posted in Cloud, Information Security (Information Protection), News & Analysis.

On July 22, 2019, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced that it had reached a proposed settlement with Equifax in connection with a 2017 data breach that exposed sensitive, personal data of around 147 million people. According to the FTC’s...