Jonathan Maas — our “go to guy” for spotting excellent articles, posts and sources of information on Twitter in the areas of forensic technology and discovery, most with a UK and/or European focus to them.   He shares these finds (an informal, occasional and personal selection) with his select mailing list via daily blasts entitled “BONG!” which, for those outside the UK, is a reference to the main evening TV news in the UK, on which headlines are read out between strikes (bongs) of Big Ben’s clock at Westminster. 

Jonathan’s collection for last week:

*  Clifford Chance and Microsoft plan new dawn for legal market IT http://litn.eu/cc05 

*  The widely reported Bribery Act review: The real story behind the headlines and why it is unlikely to result in change http://bit.ly/fJYi19

*  Consultation on merger of SFO into new Economic Crime Agency (UK FBI) likely to begin in the Spring reports FT http://bit.ly/dQIEmk

*  Who owns your data?  http://on.mash.to/fqO93v    ”Big Data makes its own gravy”

*  Correlating belief in UFOs visiting earth to a US political party http://post.ly/1UkFN

*  The lure and lore of EDD commodity pricing http://bit.ly/ecLmtk

*  Squire Sanders white paper on predictive coding http://bit.ly/hPiBEv

*  The eDiscovery pricing model is dead http://tiny.ly/ykP8 

*  All of Ralp Losey’s eDiscovery education blogs on 1 page http://t.co/fYEr77X

*  Interview of US Judges Grimm & Facciola on predictive coding http://is.gd/uB25oJ

*  How to prevent ‘The End of Lawyers’ http://bit.ly/giOHMY || considers impact of Richard Susskind and Porter framework on legal IT

*  Lawyer drops trousers and pants during counselling session. Teens unamused, lawyer arrested http://bit.ly/fH2Cfq

*  Judges making more of a case for eDiscovery sanctions http://tinyurl.com/4g9gt6g

*  What makes lawyers so challenging? http://j.mp/eWBy4Q

*  Rackspace floats cloud platform over UK http://tinyurl.com/49ss6mv

*  Do law firms need professional account managers? – http://bit.ly/gSO0mF

*  White paper on eDiscovery for backup tapes http://bit.ly/fH0se8

*  Law firm creates “accident app” http://bit.ly/gr4LDA 

*  How can I find out if someone is stealing my Wi-Fi? http://tinyurl.com/6877ml9

*  EFF obtains docs that reveal when authorities can get your data from social media companies – http://tinyurl.com/65yznp2

*  Guidance Software brings digital forensics to Apple iPad, iPhone 4 http://bit.ly/epe2Hi

*  The growth of linked data http://rww.to/h533OO > good primer on publishing/connecting structured data on the web

*  US Dept of Justice purchases Relativity for eDiscovery and legal hold process management: http://ow.ly/3GBPU 

*  So, what would 10 Petabytes look like? http://rww.to/fHUYjP 

*  Work email not protected by attorney-client privilege, California court says http://bit.ly/gWGij4 

*  eDiscovery rules applied to social media: what this means in practical terms for businesses http://bit.ly/fHgGND

*  Production of servers without review waives privilege & so might storage of privileged materials on servers shared with others > cloud impact? http://bit.ly/fPNeaY 

*  Gold! The “global implications” of coffee in meetings http://bit.ly/dVyh2x 

*  40% of executives not planning to adopt the cloud http://bit.ly/gH7nA4 

*  New research: deferred prosecution agreements are a rich source of guidance for compliance. http://bit.ly/eegeFV 

*  Bribery Act: SFO chief Richard Alderman sees UK courts as a stumbling block http://bit.ly/gQ10Ti 

*  CY4OR launches new eDisclosure web site – http://blog.cy4or.co.uk/?p=463

*  Web images to get expiration date: http://tinyurl.com/6gc2ly6 

*  JFK’s inaugural speech: what makes it great oratory? http://tinyurl.com/62u4aby 

*  Tablets compared – a pretty good interactive guide from the NYT http://nyti.ms/gqnrn6 

*  In tomorrow’s webcast EY provides an overview of the latest IPO trends & transactions, with an eye to the future. http://bit.ly/fAmXWF 

*  More people are flying with a greater variety of devices: affecting the electronics of airplanes? http://nyti.ms/eJMGeF 

*  One in five UK workers spends 32 days a year managing their email http://tinyurl.com/5ultwxb 

*  Discovery as abuse –  Ralph Losey’s latest blog on this topic is out at eDiscovery Team: http://is.gd/2o41jn

*  Apple’s insane Q1 2011: $26.7 billion revenue; 7 million iPads, 16 million iPhones sold http://bit.ly/fyUiyv

*  Litigation Support Today features Cowen Group’s fifth annual litigation support salary study http://lnkd.in/2hJffT 

*  EU data protection supervisor issues major opinion on data protection http://bit.ly/gdxIyy

*  Back in power, the Republicans gut the SEC http://tumblr.com/x4x1apu4fj 

*  Connecticut. bill would regulate offshoring document review http://bit.ly/dDYyAY 

*  Government. Bribery Act review? Complaints the Bribery Act makes UK PLC uncompetitive not the whole story http://tinyurl.com/62g73ak 

*  The size of the universe http://bit.ly/ePYwlY > because you never get tired of hearing how tiny you are

*  EU warns governments on cloud computing – http://tinyurl.com/6467vxa 

*  DESI IV Workshop at ICAIL 2011: Setting standards in eDiscovery search – http://tinyurl.com/5tb5htw

*  Recommind doubles London presence and expands European operations by 30% http://litn.eu/rec26

*  RIM to offer cloud-based BlackBerry Enterprise Server http://bit.ly/hlRwLh 

*  Facebook U-turns on phone and address data sharing http://tinyurl.com/47u4obg

*  Legal Directories to fade; lawyers to connect on social media http://bit.ly/hEoSIT

*  Bringing eDiscovery in-house: what corporate counsel wants versus what they need http://tiny.ly/PzuQ 

*  Wikileaks to release damaging information about Bank of America http://huff.to/exGdVW

Jonathan is the Assistant Director for Forensic Technology & Discovery Services at Ernst & Young LLP.   You can contact Jonathan at:  Jonathan Maas  jmaas@uk.ey.com.  And you can follow him on Twitter at:  http://twitter.com/maasjonathan

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