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Press appearance: BNN with Howard Green 6:45pm EST - Technology makes it harder to cover your tracks

Published by Boris Mann on March 12, 2008 under Canada, Press

I once again got the call today from the good folks at BNN asking for me to appear with Howard Green at 6:45pm EST today (Wednesday, March 12th).

The topic is how technology makes it harder to cover your tracks (or does it?) — the Eliot Spitzer case and the SocGen trading scandal being two touchstones.

I actually have two recent direct experiences as well. One being a friend that posted a small image of something private, where text was still readable, and the second being a legal briefing where the advice basically was “don’t put anything in email, please delete all email after 60 days”. To someone that has email archives stretching back a decade….well, I don’t even know what context to put that in.

Facebook and status messages and the high SEO of certain public systems “owning” your digital identity are other things I might bring into the conversation.

There is usually Windows-compatible video up on the BNN site, I’ll try and update the post with more notes on the appearance and a link to video.