Deidre said
<I think one of the stickiest issues for the coming year or two will be the
issue
of relevance and metadata -- the test for producing information is its
likely
"relevance" to the issue at hand. Most judges will say that file date/time
stamp is rarely relevant .>
If in litigation questions hinge on "who knew what when" which I understand
comes up a lot, then wouldn't you guess that, as metadata becomes
demystified in our society over time, lawyers may become more comfortable
relying on it to prove "who knew what when". For non-email electronic
records, I mean, since email has the date/time visible and capturable as
.pdf
Maureen Cusack, M.I.St.
http://www.maureencusack.net
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