In an industry where every square foot and every second count, paper records are more than a legacy. They are a liability. While many law firms continue to manage sprawling records rooms and offsite storage contracts, a growing number are discovering...
Records managers around the world are likely familiar with freedom of information (FOI) laws in their respective countries, especially when considered at the national or federal levels. But recent research concerning local, municipal-level compliance...
This year, ARMA International released the Information Governance Implementation Model (IGIM), beta version. There are, of course, other information governance (IG) models available to the community, each looking at IG through a different lens. Why...
As consumers, we have become accustomed to
having information on just about everything available at our fingertips. That expectation
has carried over into the workplace, too, where our employees, customers, and business partners alike
have an increasing...
Earlier this year, a judge from the Western District of
Pennsylvania acted on behalf of employee privacy rights when she partially
denied a public employer’s motion to dismiss a suit that accused it of
violating the plaintiff’s Fourth Amendment rights.
As...
The Utah legislature just
passed landmark legislation in support of a privacy law that protects private
electronic data stored with third parties (like Google and Facebook) from
free-range government access.
Molly Davis, in an opinion
piece on...
