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Are Instant Messages Discoverable?

e-Mail has certainly changed the way businesses communicate, and many commentators predict that instant messaging is poised to bring about the next corporate-communications revolution, an event that raises numerous questions for today's corporations.

26 minute read July 01, 2004 at 12:02 AM
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Gregory S. McCurdy And Martha J. Dawson
Are Instant Messages Discoverable?

In 1984, George Orwell wrote of a society in which technology was used to control and monitor social behavior ' “Big Brother is watching you.”

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