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December 20, 2004
Deleting Cabinet Office email
Every now and then we have a story - usually originating in London - that runs contrary to common sense.
Today we hear that the Cabinet Office has ruled e-mails more than three months old must be deleted starting from Monday. Of course that’s perfectly sensible from the government’s point of view. There are a lot more incriminating email around than letters. (The Cabinet Office’s 2,000 civil servants have been told to print and file important email - but at their own discretion.)
It is claimed that the ‘deleted’ e-mails will actually be stored on back-up systems but nevertheless will not be accessible under the Freedom of Information Act because of the cost of getting at them!
However anybody who uses a computer knows that the whole point of using email is the convenience of storage and the ease of retrieval. There are only two conclusions we can come to: either the Cabinet Office are fooling us, or they really don’t know what they doing.
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4107563.stm
Posted by Simon Holledge at December 20, 2004 11:14 PM
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