December 27, 2009 – 2:49 pm
Is change constant? Perhaps only when it comes to changing to a new year, a new calendar. Should I look back to the noughties years (2000s) or even well before the noughties years?
I guess it won’t make any sense to compare or contrast past year’s events or developments especially when it comes to talking about technology or the internet. Still…it does make interesting reading if one can grasp the full extent of the changing technological landscape.
Since I am only able to recognize the changing calendar and as I have been on the move a lot over the past years, my newsfeed are via my friends or from social media sites. Being in Beijing means access to social media sites and blog sites takes on a new dimension. I have to re-invent how I connect with new friends and turn to the foursquare to ‘shout’ out my location or bearing. Would anyone find my identity and location in 2012? (see the movie?!)
Nothing to do with ediscovery but a reminder that I am in Beijing and a Chinese friend has a new business at www.tui3.com My challenge is to learn mandarin (fast enough!?) such that I can use this site.
Before I say farewell to the noughties, here is a glimpse of what someone said ‘you need to know about e-discovery in 2010’.
Notice any changes? I can only recognize the change from 2009 to 2010.
Happy 2010.
October 17, 2009 – 5:06 pm
Soon there will be Chinese-character Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) for mobile users.
Perhaps soon there will also be a ‘Non-Uniform Domain-Name Dispute Resolution’ mechanism. Also, this month the WIPO celebrated the ten year anniversary of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)
October 14, 2009 – 2:18 pm
Since I can’t tweet I will use my blog to post.
Research into trust model(s) in the cloud and a new credit privacy rule (still in draft according to the report) in China.
October 12, 2009 – 4:10 pm
I am slowly getting used to not having ‘full access’ to the world wide web in the widest and wildest sense of the word in the so called connected world of information.
I have no access to my own websites (the Ning.com social sites are blocked!) and no posting on Facebook and Twitter. Gosh, what next?!
Am I missing much? Strangely…nope. I guess I have been too busy with being a foreigner in a strange country.
Just caught a report at ZDNet about Asia (not blocked!). I reckon China’s lawmakers have no inkling of copying the European model.
No access, no breaches, no privacy challenges so no need for privacy laws?
August 14, 2009 – 1:12 pm
I remembered doing a bit of research into the Constitution of the P.R.C. (for my Data Protection LLM module) back in 2003. I wondered what my synthesis would be now. Has the P.R.C. legal landscape changed over the past six years?
A Chinese lawyer friend visited me (as I will be leaving town soon – an informal good-bye stuff) this week. Somehow we ended up discussing ‘justice’ in China over several cups of tea and goodies from Hong Kong.
One day I will write more…
Today, I received this article - Personal Information Protection in China - © 2009 Hunton & Williams LLP, New York, New York in my mail. Mmm… the local law in China (for me) is probably a bit like the stuff over tea and cookies which ‘justice’ can’t bite or should I say ‘chew and swallow’. In a way the piecemeal, act-by-act basis of introducing law or any act sounds like chewing and swallowing.
August 10, 2009 – 6:19 pm
Over the past couple of weeks I have been busy sorting out my physical garbage and planning for my impending move to Beijing. No way near complete yet!
I just opened an invitation e-mail and the word – e-Garbage struck a loud chord! Imagine how much e-Garbage I will add to the universe of ‘e-something’ if I could just do a ‘click’ on my physical garbage and turn them into e-Garbage?! Thank goodness I can still have my teddy bear.
The invitation e-mail was for CYBERLAWS 2010 | Call for Papers - ‘The First International Conference on Technical and Legal Aspects of the e-Society’.
Hello friends,
Eventually I hope to upgrade this wordpress site to the ‘latest’ version.
Meanwhile, I will only allow ‘real’ users (as opposed to spooky/spamming e-mails) to register here. Please do announce via e-mail to me that you wish to join/register with an identifiable e-mail address.
Many thanks!
Cher
Done in Brussels, 10 July 2009. The new EU programme for the next five years in the area of freedom, security and justice - the so called Stockholm programme, is due to be adopted by the European Council in December 2009 is available at the EDPS site.
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It has been unusually hot in (South) London. Not sunbathing and not complaining about the weather but a different kind of complaint.
I was stranded for nearly one and half hour in a no power train yesterday and couldn’t help hearing several angry and frustrated mobile exchanges between couple of businessmen with the South East HQ customer services. The angry exchanges were mainly triggered because there were no communications (appeared to be no guard on the train either!) to the passengers on what was happening. The lack of visible actions on the train and the lack of reassurance from the HQ certainly did not help to calm the nerves of the passengers in a hot, broken down train in busy Waterloo tracks.
Is it difficult to relay basic information to passengers (who are entitled to be informed) the behind the scenes activities between the train driver, the engineers and HQ? I guess ‘the need to know’ (or walkabout alerting services?) by/to the passengers is not high on the HQ customer services list. No wonder train fares increases every year to pay for ‘unnecessary or avoidable’ situations – just a thought - but a rather annoying thought when one missed several business appointments!
In this age of ‘speedy and accessible’ communication (mobile connectivity etc.), customer’s expectation and fulfilment still pose challenges.
Is it also the same in the ediscovery/edisclosure world? I hazard a guess – a doubtless assertion (with the assumption that access to power/data is obtainable) - that the behind the scenes activities between the technical folks and legal and management team are exchanged too late to avoid aggros and costs. (Hence early confer/meet if this is available to parties).
In ediscovery/edisclosure, one of the behind the scene and less talk about (or blogged or written about) is evidence. This is highlighted by the use of generic term such as ‘information exchange’ in international disputes. The ‘e-words’ including ‘evidence’ are potentially culturally sensitive to use. Imagine having to describe the ‘e-evidence’ to all parties without getting cross-wired or inflicting cross-eyed to reviewers?!
For me, the term and usage of evidence in the context of international disputes requires behind the scenes re-assessment to make sense to me when dealing with ediscovery/edisclosure.
I guess evidence is also being re-assessed by folks in Asia. The ADR in Asia Conference 2009 in Hong Kong on 15th September has a topic: Interim Measures and Evidence - Emerging practices and movements.
Will e-disclosure surface under this topic?
I certainly would love to hear from folks who will be attending the Conference in Hong Kong this September. I will be in Peking University and may not be able to do the trip.
Enjoy!
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