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E-mail archiving: obligation or freestyle? (part 2)
E-mail archiving: obligation or freestyle? Part Two: Reasons for Email Archiving The most important thing right away. With the retention regulations of Swiss commercial law in force since 1.1.2013 , there are no longer any legal requirements in Switzerland for the...
New publication: Lifecycle Mgmt and relationship with Information Governance (french)
Gouvernance d'information (Les Cahiers du Numerique) - impact of records mgmt to information governance The French Canadian journal "Les cahiers du numerique" has issued an interesting number about the interrelations btw records management (information lifecycle mgmt)...
Update: Retention of business correspondence?
Business correspondence - retention obligation? Since 1.1.2013, Swiss commercial law has applied the principle that business correspondence is no longer subject to retention. What does this mean for companies? Which cases do you consider borderline and where is there...
The information elephant
The information elephant symbolizes an organic life cycle of information and serves as a model for the different phases, from information intake to disposal. (cf. short presentation)
Social Media meets Old IT
Protagonists of the new media never tire of emphasizing how the world will change thanks to these technologies. This is certainly not unjustified, but it is usually forgotten that in addition to the new tools, there is still a huge "legacy" of data and infrastructure....
Typical information governance issues
Who decides where data may be located? Who regulates the use of social media? When can data be deleted? Why are our reservoirs overflowing? Why can't we find the relevant information anymore? What emails do we need to keep? Which emails do we need to delete? Are...
Digitization strategy
What actually is a digitization strategy? On the one hand, the core issue is to identify which strategic business processes can be supported by the means of modern information technologies. On the other hand, new offerings are also to be developed and supported with...
Reference List Information Governance
Main references (links, blogs, literature) on information governance. Can be used for training purposes.
Is a file plan or filing system sufficient?
What for, that would probably be the follow-up question. In classic records and document management, file or retention schedules are understood as the central element for mastering documents. In information governance, however, a retention schedule is only one of many...
Procedural documentation
It is undisputed that the procedures for storage and archiving must be documented (Art. 4 GeBüV). The basic requirement here is to understand and be able to trace the core processes of archiving and retention. The primary purpose of the documentation is to be able to...
Film review: A Decade of Discovery or Do you have to keep all your e-mails in Switzerland, too?
On May 7, a film was shown in Zurich(trailer), which shows the development of the American eDiscovery process during the last 20 years. The film describes the development of the processing of data, which must be presented in American trials. In U.S. procedural law,...
Top down or bottom up?
Both, because the classic top-down methods have proven to be a complete failure. Many organizations have spent years thinking about how to implement records management in the most structured and uniform way possible. Most of these initiatives have run out of steam,...
Is the new Swiss data protection law compatible with Europe? Which law governs your organization?
Update 2019: The current draft of the BR is not GDPR compatible. This amounts to the next conflict with the EU. It is unbelievable how some politicians in Bern have committed themselves to the protection of privacy on paper, but at the same time torpedo the most...
And test who binds himself (forever): The GDPR and “processors” (Art. 28)
In this article, I would like to present what impact the GDPR has on providers in the IT industry. The GDPR expands the obligations of principals and data processors when processing personal data, compared to the data protection laws in force today. The GDPR defines...
Obligation to retain pension fund documents
Currently, a case was broadcast in Kassensturz, which focused on the retention obligations in connection with BVG/PK. Here are the relevant articles of the law : Federal Law on Occupational Retirement, Survivors' and Disability Pension Plans (BVG) Art. 41 Limitation...
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