A Federal Ruling on electronic discovery requirements took effect December 1, 2006. The e-discovery rule will place more stringent electronic message archiving requirements on Businesses, Schools and Not-For-Profits (for a digestible summary go here). The ruling states that an entity involved in litigation shall be able to produce all relevant electronically stored information--email, IM, etc.--during legal discovery. This means that organizations must store the communications AND be able to retrieve them in a timely fashion. The ruling also states that organizations will not be expected to produce the documents when doing so would result in "undue burden of cost."
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