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Donna Seyle is an attorney and consultant who helps small firms and solo  lawyers with innovative law practice strategies. She has established herself as a thought leader in the field and was kind enough to discuss these topics this week for the NetDocuments blog.
Q: Thanks for joining me Donna. First off, can you tell me a little bit about what you do?
A: My business, Law Practice Strategy, is all about the evolution of the legal profession resulting from technology and the recession. Given the nature of the job market for lawyers, I developed a strategy that enables solos and small boutique firms build successful practices based on the principles of cost-containment and project management, and the integrated use of content marketing, technology and fixed pricing. I work with lawyers, individually and in groups, helping them to develop a proactive mindset, understand the principles of the strategy and use the tools to start or redesign their practice.
Q: You mentioned that you help lawyers with technology, so how are new technologies changing the way lawyers are working?
A: Technology is revolutionizing the profession. The use of virtual law practice platforms has significant advantages that enable lawyers to offer their services to consumers who otherwise could not afford to hire an attorney or take time off from work to meet with lawyers in person. Because they are so cost-effective, they also allow lawyers to be more comfortable offering fixed pricing, which essentially shifts the risk of cost from the client to the lawyer. Using technology creates efficiency and extends the reach of availability of legal services to so many people that would otherwise be unreachable. But it also creates security concerns and ethical considerations that need to be addressed. Currently, several state bars have issued opinions, and the ABA’s Law Practice Management Section is trying to deal with these issues, largely through the eLawyering Task Force. The use of technology is so significant that it has forced us to redefine what it means to practice law, perhaps creating divisions between what Jordan Furlong calls “legal services” and “lawyer services.”
Very insightful information. At NetDocuments, we have built integrations with other legal SaaS solutions such as AdvologixPM to offer lawyers an integrated, fully featured law practice platform.
Q: In talking about cloud computing and SaaS, how has it leveled the technology playing field between large and small law firms?
A: Saas/cloud platforms have been designed for solos and small firms to provide a cost-effective way to offer the capabilities and convenience of technology that previously could only be afforded by big law with large IT departments. For example, the recession has forced business, large and small, to contain their costs, and legal departments are no exception. To do so, in-house counsel has been demanding that outside counsel reduce their hourly rates or institute fixed pricing or other terms. If outside counsel refuses to do so, there have been instances where a few lawyers from those firms leave and open their own boutique firm, take the unhappy clients with them and agree to different billing arrangements. Because of the cloud platforms that now exist, they can offer the same level of service.
I have definitely worked with a number of lawyers who have broken off from large firms and use SaaS technology to efficiently manage their practice.
Q: What are the most critical technologies needed to start a new law firm?
A: The most critical technologies needed are communication, case management and document storage, although I personally prefer comprehensive packages that do it all in one place. But maybe a more important question is not what the technology does, but how it works. [Traditional] Software is a huge waste of time and money and, in my mind, raises more security issues than cloud applications. It also does not address the communication issue, since everyone communicates through email (or some version of it). And if you’re talking about Saas, then the most critical questions relate to security and privacy. No matter what kind of program or application you decide on, you must do vendor due diligence to be sure they provide the highest level security available, both technological and physical.
Q: You seem to be pretty active in the social media scene. What advice would you give to a lawyer debating the merits of social media?
A: I think it depends on your playing field. I live in a small California beach town where more than half the lawyers don’t use social media of any kind and they’re enormously successful. And that’s because they’ve established themselves in a very small community where they’ve been able to get their foot in the door before it slammed shut a few years ago, and they like playing in a small arena. For them, social media is unnecessary and probably not worth their time. On the other hand, if you’re just getting started, or if you like being on the cutting-edge of the profession, participating in social media is absolutely necessary. You just have to do it. It simply is the state of interaction of our times, it’s where everything’s happening and where you find out about it. But you need to use your head. Pretend you’re a little kid and your mom’s hearing or reading everything you say or write online. And not only you, but everything your friends say and do. Before I became professionally active in social media, I was on Facebook with the standard profile. Then I wanted to add a business page, and I realized you could not separate your business page from your profile. Since I didn’t want my professional connections to have access to my personal page, I closed that account and opened a brand new one with only professional connections. Some people were offended, but I did what I thought was necessary to insure against anything popping up that might not be appropriate or helpful.
Q: What is your favorite social network and why?
A: Twitter, hands down. But it’s a personal choice. Twitter is where I started interacting online, where I’ve met (online and off) some of the greatest people I know, where I do lots of research & get almost all of my information, where I get involved in terrific conversations (or arrange a time to take it offline). Sometimes I stay off Twitter because I need to get just focus on getting work done. After a few days, I feel totally deprived and need to jump back on just to catch up and participate.
I can personally vouch for that as I met Donna via Twitter where she can be found at @DonnaSeyle.
I’d like to thank Donna for the informative and valuable information. For more information on what she does or to continue the discussion, you can reach her on Twitter or visit her website at www.lawpracticestrategy.com.
If you’d like to be featured on a NetDocuments Q&A, send an email to myself at djohnson[@]NetDocuments.com or send a tweet to @NetDocuments.
Post written by Danny Johnson of the NetDocuments marketing team.
September 8th, 2010 | Tags: ABA, Alternative Billing, elawyering, Legal SaaS, legal technology, SaaS, social media| Category: Advologix, Cloud Computing, SaaS, collaboration, document management, legal, legal technology | No Comments »
It’s that time of year again, kids are getting ready to go back to school, the snow cone stand outside NetDocuments HQ is packed with sales and support staff and the annual ILTA technology conference is about to begin.
This year, the ILTA Conference is being held in Las Vegas and will get underway on August 22nd and run until August 26th. We’ll be there all week at booth #809/811. The theme for this year is Strategic Unity and should cover a number of relevant topics such as mobility, cloud computing and more.
NetDocuments will have a large constituency at the show including members of the sales team, marketing group and management, and as always, we are excited to meet with our customers and old friends as well as build new relationships. We’ve also got some new surprises for this year’s show…
Cloud Lounge
This year our booth is a bit different than usual…as always our sales team will be doing what they do on one side, while on the other side we’ve built our very own Cloud Lounge. I’m not at liberty to reveal exactly what will be going on at the Cloud Lounge so be sure to check it out at the show.
What happens in Vegas…
What happens in Vegas…shows up on Twitter. The social media buzz surrounding ILTA has already started and we’ll definitely be involved, so make sure you follow the @NetDocuments Twitter feed during the show as well as the #ILTA10 hashtag to possibly win prizes and stay current on all things ILTA 2010.
Executive Briefing Room
Other than our booth and Cloud Lounge, we are going to have an executive briefing room to meet with potential customers as well as show previews and roadmap material to existing customers. If you’d like to schedule a time to meet with a sales rep during ILTA, drop an email to sales@netdocuments.com
Notable Sessions
There will be a number of informative sessions during the show but there were a few that really got us here at NetDocuments excited.
- Email Management Success Stories – Aug. 24th at 9:00am with Chris Romano of Ward and Smith PA
- Cloud Nine or in a Fog? – Aug. 24th at 11:00am with Mark Manoukian of Kegler Brown and Lawrence Gianneschi of Colgate-Palmolive Legal Department
- Cost Effective Solutions for Web Filtering and Monitoring – Aug. 24th at 3:30 with Mark Manoukian of Kegler Brown
Post written by Danny Johnson of the NetDocuments marketing team.
August 2nd, 2010 | Tags: Elvis Presley, ILTA, Las Vegas, legal tech, Lounge, Technology| Category: Cloud Computing, Email Management, SaaS, Technology, Trade Show, document management, legal, legal technology | No Comments »
This week I discussed the current trends in UK legal technology with Jason Plant, who is an IT manager at a large UK law firm and also writes a popular legal technology blog titled No Option for Law Firm!.
Q: Thanks for your time and sharing your knowledge with us Jason. First off, what do you see as the most important current trends in legal technology in the UK?
A: I posted on my blog what I thought were the top 5 legal technologies in 2010 at the start of the year. I stand by them although I probably would reorder them a little to give the following as the top three.
I think Office 2010 and Windows 7 will be big in that a lot of UK firms stuck with Windows XP and Office 2003. Not the most important trend in terms of changing the face of legal IT, but a crucial change.
The biggest new trends I would say are mobile and instant messaging rather than any specific legal IT application, I think Legal is finally joining the mainstream in technology and I think these two areas are ideally suited to lawyers.
It will be fun to watch how the three items you mentioned work together, specifically with Office 2010 web apps enabling more mobility for lawyers.
Q: Do UK law firms have different technology needs than American firms? If so, in what ways?
A: I don’t think so, I think the needs are pretty much the same, the US does seem to have more lawyers interested in technology (perhaps more comfortable with it too?) and so perhaps adopts it faster. There are also some technologies that maybe get wider use in the US due to legal requirements, nature of work or culture (e.g. eDiscovery I suspect is more widely used in the US).
Q: How does the Patriot Act affect UK law firms adoption of SaaS? What can US SaaS providers do to gain acceptance in the UK?
A: US providers are going to have to understand the legal requirements of UK firms and their clients more, then help meet these requirements.
We at NetDocuments agree that UK firms should have UK-based hosting, which is why we are planning to implement a UK-based data center later this year.
Q: I like to tell people that SaaS has leveled the technology playing field between small and large firms. Working in large law, would you agree with this statement?
A: Difficult one this. In a business sense I don’t see it making too much of a difference. Certainly for a small firm it reduces the cost of implementing services, but then economies of scale probably help the large firms keep the costs low too.
However for small firms it probably gives them access to technology they wouldn’t have previously had access to. So in that sense it levels the playing field of technology availability to the lawyers. Whether they can then use that technology to get more clients, bill more or reduce costs through business process change is another matter!
Very good analysis.
Q: If you were to start a law firm from scratch, which technologies would you start with?
A: I’d be boring and look at the basics and ensure that was as easy as possible, Apple App Store easy! So that would be document production, finance apps and communications. Ensuring lawyers can produce and receive documents easily then store them in an organized electronic file with ease. Communicate from anywhere with ease and be contacted easily with the most appropriate tool (i.e. try to cut down on the volume of email!). Then underpin the whole organization with a finance system that can do the operational and provide information for the strategic.
Get these basics right and you’ve more time for the lawyers to spend bringing the money in and understand where to focus to get that money! Oh and no I don’t think there is any vendor (legal or not) that has all the above spot on yet!
Q: On a lighter note, what is your favorite (British) football team?
A: I’m a Manchester United fan and was a season ticket holder for many years at Old Trafford until 2005. Since then I have joined 2000+ other Manchester United fans and formed our own football club, FC United of Manchester who currently play their football in the Northern Premier League Premier division.
Wow! Very cool. I lived in England for three years and I’m all in for Chelsea!
Q: Have you forgiven the English goalie for blowing that save against the US in the world cup?
A: Yes of course. I thought the game against the US was going to be tight as a lot of the US squad play in England and so understand how English teams play, so I wasn’t too surprised with the result. Now forgiving the referee for the goal that never was against Germany is a different matter…….
That’s why I’m a proponent for instant replay.
I’d like to thank Jason Plant for his time and sharing with us the knowledge he has gained from his vast experience dealing with legal technology.
If you’d like to be featured in a technology Q&A, send a tweet to either myself at @dannymjohnson, or to@NetDocuments.
Post written by Danny Johnson of the NetDocuments sales and marketing team.
July 14th, 2010 | Tags: England, legal technology, Mobile Technology, No Option for Law Firm, SaaS, twitter, UK, World Cup| Category: Cloud Computing, SaaS, Technology, document management, legal, legal technology | No Comments »
Part I: SaaS for Lawyers; Part II: SaaS for Financial Advisors; Part III: SaaS for Accountants
JFK’s goal was to send a man to the moon; Bill Gates wanted to put ‘information at your fingertips’; and Sun Microsystems claimed that the computer was the network. JFK’s dream was realized by Neil Armstrong, Bill Gates’s dream has been realized by the iPhone and Blackberry, and Sun Microsystems dream is now truly being realized by anyone with a Facebook, Pandora, or Google account through cloud computing and SaaS.
Web hosted applications allow users to transform their computer into a global network. In the past, users were required to buy high performance powerful computers in order to efficiently run powerful software and store high volumes of data. Today, users can store can store 1000s of pictures, songs, or documents on the web and access them from anywhere on any browser enabled device. The enabling power of the internet exists; the responsibility to utilize that power now rests with us.
Though SaaS and cloud computing have gained significantly in popularity, many still get confused by how these two forms of computing differ.
Cloud Computing and SaaS
- Cloud computing is computing services delivered via the internet. SaaS is a form of cloud computing that allows users to access software through a web browser rather than install it locally on a PC. Facebook, Gmail, or any other Web 2.0 tool are common examples of consumer SaaS.
- There is a similarity in what cloud computing is doing for businesses today to what the national electricity grid did for businesses a century ago. Before a national energy grid, businesses had to produce their own power to run the company. Similarly, before cloud computing, businesses had to store all their data and manage their own hardware and software themselves.
- SaaS providers act similar to a landlord who rents out space in an apartment complex. The SaaS provider hosts the software at a data center and rents usage to its users. This is referred to as multi-tenancy. This allows the SaaS provider to leverage economies of scale which usually results in lower costs for the end user. It also means that the software provider can push out product upgrades and maintenance to all users automatically.
With cloud computing on the horizon, why do lawyers, advisors, accountants and other professionals still wring their hands over managing independent, locally installed applications on end-user PCs?
Today, desktop computing and applications are virtual, accessible from anywhere, and on any device. Furthermore, the SaaS market for industry specific tools has matured and developed into a viable option for firms of all sizes. In part I of this series, we’ll discuss Legal SaaS, in part II, we’ll discuss SaaS for financial advisors, and for part III, we’ll talk about SaaS for accountants.
Legal SaaS
SaaS has been available in the legal field for nearly a decade, but it took some time for mainstream lawyers to accept the SaaS model as a viable way to store confidential client data. As SaaS vendors have matured and established a proven track record, the legal SaaS market has grown in product diversity and usage at a rapidly increasing rate. There are reasons why lawyers are weary of SaaS, and these should be addressed on a case by case basis, but in most circumstances, the benefits of legal SaaS outweigh any concern that might be raised, especially for small and solo practices.
- Ease of Use – Technology is a necessity in today’s environment; however, it can cause many headaches for lawyers, especially those without a technical background. In the past, it may have been easier to manage a practice without the cost and burden of using legal specific software such as practice management, document management, etc. SaaS technology has changed this; today, all a lawyer needs is a computer and an internet connection and he or she can subscribe to a legal specific SaaS solution and be live within days or even hours.
- Reduced Costs – Furthermore, for lawyers that have left the big firm for the small firm, SaaS applications are able to provide you with the same technology as the big boys. Small firm…Big Technology. And it allows big firms to reallocate IT persons and reduce IT budgets by eliminating servers and hardware. Legal SaaS applications are leveling the playing field by bringing together centralized resources that are managed and serviced by the SaaS provider; thus, allowing lawyers to focus on solving cases, rather than solving IT problems.
- Anywhere Access – Access all of your data from anywhere without having to use numerous 3rd party solutions such as a file syncing tool, or remote access software. This allows access to data with a single login and from any computer or device.
- Collaboration – Web based solutions not only allow members of the firm to access documents and data but can also provide access to clients, co-counsel and third parties.
- Service – One attorney who recently left a large international law firm to start a solo practice found her technology solution through SaaS. She wanted to access the same technology she was using at her big firm but without the IT infrastructure and human support. She found a SaaS solution that met her needs, received free training and support, and with just a laptop and a printer is managing her practice in an efficient way.
- Number of Options – In the past, law firms were limited in the number of SaaS options available, today, there are numerous options for SaaS email, practice management, time and billing, document assembly, document management, etc.
To learn more about lawyers who have moved to the cloud, see these case studies: Solo Attorney James Linehan, Mid-Sized Firm Ward and Smith P.A., and Large Law Firm Kutak Rock.
The PC has evolved from a personal device into a global network where users can access powerful software and store high volumes of information directly from the clouds. This has allowed attorneys at small firms to operate virtual practices and easily manage a modern law practice without becoming an IT expert.
Post Written by Danny Johnson of the NetDocuments Sales and Marketing Team
June 8th, 2010 | Category: Cloud Computing, Email Management, SaaS, Technology, collaboration, document management, legal, legal technology | No Comments »
James Linehan uses NetDocuments to run a cloud based legal practice.
James Linehan runs a solo law firm in Oklahoma City. He is a pioneer in legal technology and has been running a virtual paperless firm for over 10 years. With the emergence of cloud technologies, James has eliminated his need for servers and software and now runs his practice from the cloud.
Problem
Although James Linehan had been running a virtual law firm for 10 years, he wanted to eliminate the stress caused by local servers and file backups, as well as the difficulties he was having in being able to work from anywhere.
“My biggest fear before was due to me storing all of my client files on my computer. I’d then have to separately back them up to a hard drive or portable drive and switch them out every week. And as you know, every now and then those would just quit so you don’t know if you are getting a good back up. Then there was always a risk of having a catastrophe or your computer burning out and I would have lost everything,” recalled James. “Also, to get to my files on the go, I had to make sure my computer was up and running the whole time while I was gone, and make sure I had a program like Gotomypc™ on the remote computer at the hotel or wherever I was working, which rarely had it, so I’d have to download and install it. I needed it to be much easier.”
Solution
When James heard about NetDocuments, he instantly recognized the benefits of moving to the cloud. “I saw the major advantage of it being SaaS. I did a free trial, liked what I saw, talked to my sales rep and was then completely up and running with all my documents within hours. I didn’t have to order a product from [NetDocuments] and wait for a CD to arrive or even download or install anything. Traditional software is always a pain to me,”
Not only was James up and running that same day, he was also able to leave his old life of backups and IT headaches behind. “Now that I’m with NetDocuments, I don’t have to worry about [servers and backups]. That is the best thing about it. You’ve got multiple redundant backups built in so I don’t have to worry about backing up, saving, backing up, saving and then keep worrying about if it is still working or not.”
Moving to the cloud also allowed James to work from anywhere. “Now I can access my client files from anywhere I’m at whenever I’m on the road from any computer. I was presenting in a seminar in downtown OKC the other day and while I was waiting to present I was able to work on client files from right there. It was great. I also like that I can now take my laptop and go work on my porch or in the backyard on nice days.”
Along with reducing IT hassles and becoming more mobile, James has seen a cost savings with NetDocuments. “There is big cost savings for me. Last year I tried using an online backup solution but it was very slow and took forever to upload documents. NetDocuments is much faster, better, more organized and the cost is right on.”
Results
One of the biggest benefits to Jim is the ability to easily organize his work by clients and matter. “I use workspaces which organize my emails, documents and faxes based on clients. And because there is a specific email address for each client’s workspace, when I have a client email me a document, I have him or her email it directly to his or her workspace. Now when a client calls to ask if we discussed something over email, I can instantly pull up their workspace and say yea or nay.”
He summarized the functional benefits of NetDocuments by saying, “The email management, scanning ability, unique email addresses and the simplicity of it are the main benefits for me with NetDocuments.”
After 10 years of running a virtual law firm, Jim has settled on a mix of powerful technology products that let him focus on serving his clients rather than his technology. “For my whole office, other than NetDocuments, I have a Fujitsu ScanSnap scanner, a desktop and laptop computer, Oovoo for video conferencing, Gmail with Outlook for email, MS Office and a website with a live chat function so I can chat with current and prospective clients.”
“When I went virtual about 10 years ago, my fellow attorneys thought I was nuts when I was scanning and shredding all of my files. Nowadays, all the big firms have done the same thing and smaller firms are starting to go virtual but it would be even better if they understood how much better something like NetDocuments would be for them. Everyone knew me as the guy that ran the virtual office, now I tell everyone that I’m a cloud office and they like it.”
Website: http://www.linehanpc.com/
June 1st, 2010 | Tags: Attorney, file sharing, green IT, legal technology, Oklahoma City, paperless, Virtual Law Firm| Category: Cloud Computing, SaaS, collaboration, legal, legal technology | No Comments »
The NetDocuments legal team is getting excited about their trip to Boston for the Association of Legal Administrators’ (ALA) Annual Conference & Exposition from May 3-6 2010. We will be represented by Keith Schneider, Matt Duncan and Kirsten Walker who will be hanging out at booth #306 talking legal technology and SaaS, as well as giving out a free iPad. Stop by the booth for more details.
ALA has done a fantastic job this year preparing for the event and providing ways for those that can’t make it to participate. They have already created some informative videos about the show and have an interactive Twitter account at @ALABuzz. Furthermore, the Twitter #hashtag for the show is #ALAConf and you can find everyone that will be tweeting from the show at the ALA Conference Twitter List.
ALA has also lined up great speakers and presenters for the educational sessions with a lineup that features various industry leaders, and even includes hall of fame baseball players.
This is the second straight year that NetDocuments will be at the ALA Conference and this year we will be the only SaaS content management provider and only document management service that is used by both small and large firms at the show so we’ll do our best to represent the SaaS and cloud computing market.
April 28th, 2010 | Tags: ALA, Boston, iPad, law firm, legal, Technology| Category: Apple, Cloud Computing, SaaS, legal, legal technology | No Comments »
OREM, UTAH – February 17, 2010 – NetDocuments, the leading Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) content management service provider, announced today it has completed the SAS 70 Type I audit, and it has also completed the Truste EU Safe Harbor Certification, acknowledging that NetDocuments delivers its SaaS content management service and its web site in accordance with these standards.
The SAS 70 standard (Statement on Auditing Standards No.70) was developed by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), and is an internationally recognized auditing standard. SAS 70 designation represents that the AICPA or its designees have conducted a rigorous audit of the NetDocuments controls and safeguards over its information technology and all related processes.
SAS 70 Type I audit describes the company’s internal controls at a point in time and assesses whether they were suitably described to achieve control objectives. In six month’s time, NetDocuments will complete the SAS 70 Type II audit demonstrating the operational effectiveness of its controls over a period of time, and then maintain it year after year.
The TRUSTe EU Safe Harbor Seal communicates that a Web site has committed to protecting the privacy of EU visitors through compliance with the EU-US Safe Harbor Framework and participation in TRUSTe’s Watchdog Consumer Dispute Resolution service. The EU-US Safe Harbor Framework was developed by the U.S. Department of Commerce in concert with the European Commission to provide a framework by which US companies may comply with EU privacy directives protecting the personal information of European citizens.
“It’s absolutely essential for NetDocuments’ customers to have confidence in their hosted services provider and ensure we have effective controls, standards and infrastructure in place to comprehensively protect their data,” said Ken Duncan, CEO at NetDocuments. “We are committed to do everything we can to service our customers with the highest standards.”
February 17th, 2010 | Tags: accounting, CPA, law, legal tech, Security, Technology| Category: Cloud Computing, SaaS, business continuity, customer service, legal, legal technology | No Comments »
This post was authored by Danny Johnson of the NetDocuments sales and marketing group.
The Fourth Amendment in the Bill of Rights protects against unreasonable searches and seizures and is a vital part of the United States Constitution. As data stored in the cloud continues to proliferate, the debate on how this law relates to the security of this data will become increasingly important.
Recently, a very in depth analysis on this topic was released in the June 2009 edition of the Minnesota Law Review titled, “Defogging the Cloud: Applying Fourth Amendment Principles to Evolving Privacy Expectations in Cloud Computing.” The article discusses how the fourth amendment relates to data stored in the cloud.  The article was written by David Couillard, who is in his final year at Minnesota Law School.
The Law Review article was brought to my attention by James Urquhart, who writes on cloud computing for CNET.com. Urquhart breaks down the law review article and provides a clear path for how the law should treat data stored in the clouds in an article titled “Does the Fourth Amendment Cover the ‘Cloud’”?
Urquhart sums up the discussion very nicely and lays a solid framework as to how this issue could be approached:
“Coulliard wraps up with a suggested framework for applying the Fourth Amendment to “the cloud” that is very much in line with my own thinking. Treat digital assets on third-party sites not as transactions (like phone numbers dialed), but in the same way you would treat physical assets kept in an apartment or storage locker:
‘[T]he service provider has a copy of the keys to a user’s cloud “storage unit,” much like a landlord or storage locker owner has keys to a tenant’s space, a bank has the keys to a safe deposit box, and a postal carrier has the keys to a mailbox. Yet that does not give law enforcement the authority to use those third parties as a means to enter a private space.
The same rationale should apply to the cloud. In some circumstances, such as search engine queries, the third party is clearly an interested party to the communication. But when content data, passwords, or URLs are maintained by a service provider in a relationship more akin to that of landlord-tenant, such as private Google accounts, any such data that the provider is not directly interested in should not be understood to be open to search via consent or a waiver of Fourth Amendment protection.’
Amen, Mr. Coulliard. Personally, I hope the courts note this framework, and begin applying it to Fourth Amendment cases arising from Internet-based computing immediately. Furthermore, I call for Congress to explicitly codify a similar framework with laws that clearly and unequivocally state the rights of users with respect to their data in the cloud.”
I would recommend reading the entire Urquhart article to fully understand the implications and possible approaches to addressing the issue of cloud data and the fourth amendment.
January 26th, 2010 | Tags: CNET, Founding Fathers, Govenment, Security| Category: Cloud Computing, SaaS, document management, legal | 2 Comments »
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