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In a country with a healthy, functioning government, this sort of deliberate corporate evasion would be swiftly recognized, and countered with rewrites to the l
by Bud 15y ago
In a country with a healthy, functioning government, this sort of deliberate corporate evasion would be swiftly recognized, and countered with rewrites to the legislation, or legislation which was more flexible to begin with.
This doesn't seem too hard to me. If we've really decided as a society to make corporations track and retain data about their everyday operations and internal communication, then let's DO THAT. This silliness about whether it's ASCII text sent as email, or ASCII text sent as text messages, is just embarrassing.
- twoodfin 15y agoIt's not deliberate evasion. Email systems weren't originally designed with strict data retention policies in mind. I know Exchange offers some features in this regard, but even there I doubt it's impossible for a user to innocently create an archive outside the reach of the policy. Web messaging applications that do everything server-side are much more readily "locked down" in this regard (properly designed web mail would work just as well). Sure, it's all just data, and if I'm sufficiently clever I can always make copies of it. But then I'm operating outside the policy. The point is that if everyone follows the policy, all data that shouldn't be retained won't be. It's much easier to write and implement such a data retention policy when the data's only permanent home is on a server.