What About Me?
Intel Corporation (INTC) has created a great Info-graphic generator that will collate information from a few different sources and give you the opportunity to tell the world the story of your own personal journey.
It takes 30 seconds to run and at completion you get to review data in eight different categories
- The Stories I Tell
- Friend Fave
- Swoonworthy
- How I put it Out There
- When I Clock In
- My Mood
- My Connections
- What I’m Talking about Now
A couple of the key things that grab my attention are the fact that the tool evaluates my mood based on the language I use in my posts. I’m pretty upbeat (or so I think) but the tool seems to think I have a slightly better than average mood. The other interesting thing I noticed is the sequence of pictures of men in hats. This photostream comes from a rant I posted a few years ago about men in silly hats that always need to sit directly in front of me.
Overall I like tools like this because as our online data storage grows, you can make inferences that may not be possible with smaller data sets.
The final point I would like to highlight is that as we put more and more of our personal interactions on social media and content based websites we are building a virtual biography of our lives. That rant about men in silly hats may seem funny now, but in 200 years after the persecution of the hat wearers my little rant could be misconstrued as a tyrannical oppression meant to keep the covered man down.
In the end, I suggest you be mindful of what you drop into the cloud, but also have fun with it and explore ways to strengthen your personal relationships with the use of today’s media.
What About Me
eDiscovery for the Masses
2012 is already shaping up as a pivotal year for eDiscovery. From Predictive Coding to Cost Shifting the race is on.
Dean Gonsowski has identified the top 10 trends for 2012.
- Technology Assisted Review (TAR) gains speed.
- The custodian-based collection model comes under stress.
- The FRCP amendment debate will rage on – unfortunately without much near term progress.
- Data hoarding increasingly comes under pressure.
- Information governance becomes a reality.
- Backup tapes will be increasingly seen as a liability.
- International e-discovery and e-disclosure processes will continue to mature.
- Email becomes “so 2009” as social media gains traction.
- Cost-shifting will become more prevalent, impacting the “American Rule.”
- Risk assessment becomes a critical component of e-discovery.
My curiosity however lies in the old adage that “we don’t know what we don’t know.”
I think that if we dismiss the trends that we can see coming over the hill, we should be able to pick up some noise surrounding things that we have not seen yet. One of these things is being compared to the “black box” installed on commercial aircraft. It contains a lot of information that was not typically recorded before becoming standard equipment. In the IT world, imagine a “black box” system who’s only purpose is to collect data about the data. While the BI implications are interesting, the eDiscovery uses are mesmerizing. Granted there are some valid arguments around privacy and security, but arguments are opportunities to improve and never a reason to abandon an idea.
Another key trend that I would like to juggle is the idea that the EDRM model may experience a “Will It Blend” moment where the functions and their sequence are reconfigured on the fly to support faster, cheaper, more focused discovery. The idea that only 20% of our documents are relevant means that we wasted 80% of our time looking at documents that had nothing to do with our legal matter. I foresee a scenario where reinventing the discovery model will allow us to collect 50%-75% less irrelevant information.
My final thought hovers around the threat that some of our ediscovery systems themselves could be “discoverable”. As a technologist this is a concept that could lead to many sleepless nights. I will be doing some more research to identify some precedent around this concept. Hopefully I’m not the only person concerned about the legal protocols in place to prevent your opposing counsel from ordering up the honeypot for lunch.
EDRM – Electronic Discovery Reference Model
EDRM
Information Management
Getting your electronic house in order to mitigate risk & expenses should e-discovery become an issue, from initial creation of electronically stored information through its final disposition.
Identification
Locating potential sources of ESI & determining its scope, breadth & depth.
Preservation
Ensuring that ESI is protected against inappropriate alteration or destruction.
Collection
Gathering ESI for further use in the e-discovery process (processing, review, etc.).
Processing
Reducing the volume of ESI and converting it, if necessary, to forms more suitable for review & analysis.
Review
Evaluating ESI for relevance & privilege.
Analysis
Evaluating ESI for content & context, including key patterns, topics, people & discussion.
Production
Delivering ESI to others in appropriate forms & using appropriate delivery mechanisms.
Presentation
Displaying ESI before audiences (at depositions, hearings, trials, etc.), especially in native & near-native forms, to elicit further information, validate existing facts or positions, or persuade an audience.