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Vol. I · No. 251
Mon · 8 Jun
A Daily Lexicon of Trustworthy Data
The Lexicon

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ediscovery

/ˌiːdɪsˈkʌvəri/ - n.

1 [colloq.] The annual event at which the org learns, under oath, how many places it kept the same message.Keep. Punchy.This is the problem.

Working definition

2. The identification, collection, and production of electronically stored information for legal proceedings.

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See also
  • data discoveryThe tool whose first scan is reclassified internally as an incident.
  • data lineage for auditA diagram that is accurate up to the join where someone exported it to a spreadsheet and emailed it.
  • legal holdThe one instruction that the retention schedule, otherwise inert, has always obeyed instantly.
  • records managementA lifecycle with a thorough creation stage, a generous storage stage, and a disposition stage observed mainly in theory.