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Email, Privilege, Confidential Information and Inadvertent Disclosure

Wed, 01/12/2005 - 11:10am — JudgeJones

There is an interesting article on a site regarding emails and confidentiality, entitled Email, Privilege, Condifential Information and Inadvertent Disclosures by Rebecca J. Foote of the firm of Ford Marrin Esposito Witmeyer & Gleser, L.L.P., New York.

I think this is worthy of some discussion. I've put the topic under "Discovery" because that' probably the venue in which the concern will appear most of the time.

their site wrote:

Communication via electronic mail “email”) has become commonplace in the US and the use of
email for international communication grows each day. Email offers several advantages over other methods of communication, including the ease and convenience of preparation and speed of transmission, all at relatively inexpensive cost. Email, however, carries with it security risks, including inadvertent misaddressing, interception and malicious dissemination as exemplified by recent email remailing

computer viruses.

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