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Benjamin Wright

Attorney Benjamin Wright advises clients on privacy, digital law and forensic investigations. He teaches e-discovery, information technology and cyber-investigation law for SANS Institute. Mr Wright is a frequent public speaker at professional groups like state CPA societies and Institute of Internal Auditors. As the author of technology law books such as The Law of Electronic Commerce, he blogs on electronic data, records, security and social media law, and he spots trends, such as the rise of activists and whistleblowers wielding small video cameras. 2010: Russian financial authorities tapped Mr. Wright for advice on regulation and investigations in the micro-finance industry.

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Mr. Wright graduated from Georgetown University Law Center 1984. He serves on the Industry Advisory Board for the Electrical Engineering Department as SMU's Lyle School of Engineering.

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Mr. Wright's blogs, buzzes, tweets, web comments and the like are intended to promote public discussion. They constitute the online update service for the book The Law of Electronic Commerce. Originally released 1991, and revised continually since then, the book is a reference for lawyers, published by Wolters Kluwer Law and Business.

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E-Discovery Posts on this Blog

Cyber Investigator Evidence Capture
Work Product Metadata
Backup Tape Restoration
E-Forensics Ethics
E-mail for Intellectual Property
E-mail Search-ability
Local Government Litigation Hold
Healthcare Litigation Hold
Lost Records in Lawsuit Against College
Gov't Open Records Act
E-Discovery in Corporate Scandals
Litigation Hold Disaster
Smoking Gun E-Discovery
E-Discovery Strategy

Government Agency & School Records

County Policy Development
County Government E-mail Archive
E-mail Retention at School District
E-Records at State University
Hostile Work Environment
Freedom of Information & Open Records Acts
State E-mail Record Retention
Transit Authority PST Folders

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Compare E-Records & Paper Records
Crime: Delete Gov't E-mail?
E-mail as Institutional Memory
State Retention Schedule
Sedona Guide on Policy
Patient Records
Local Gov't E-mail & FOIA
British e-mail disclosure case
Healthcare Internal Control: Retained E-mail Records
E-mail Retention at School District
E-mail Archival & Search
Retain Business Voicemail?
Ex-Employee E-mail
Coping with Volumes of Corporate E-mail
Bank E-mail Retention Regulations
E-record retention categories
Collaboration Software Records
Combat Blackmail with e-Records
School E-mail
Coping with Employee Personal Messages
E-records in the "Cloud"

Jackson County E-Records Case Study

Workshop Produced E-mail Policy

Data Security Law in this Blog

Deter OSINT (open source intelligence)
Investigator Ethics
PII Defined?
Facebook Risk
Data Security Breach Defined
Lost Backup Tapes
FTC Wrongly Punishes TJX
Filter for Reasonable Security
Social Network - Workplace Risk
Data Breach = $$
Card Data Security - Merchants
Lost Laptop - Going Overboard with Breach Notices
Over-reacting to Credit Card Data Breach

Blog Archive

▼ 2012 (2)
- ▼ January (2)
  - Megaupload Users | Get Legal Files Back?
  - Cloud Provider FBI Raid

► 2011 (15)
- ► November (2)
  - Service of Process via Social Media
  - How to Record Nonstandard Online Financial Trades
- ► October (5)
- ► September (2)
  - 3D Printing | Inducing to Violate Intellectual Pro...
  - Telemedicine Meets Privacy & Free Speech
- ► August (1)
  - Geolocation Data for Tax Collection
- ► July (3)
- ► January (2)
  - Recording Telephone Calls and Instant Messages
  - How to Comply with Internet Regulations

► 2010 (36)
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  - Cybertheft of Intellectual Property
  - Legal terms of service
- ► May (1)
  - Not legal advice
- ► April (4)
- ► March (4)
- ► February (6)
- ► January (1)

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