Hi Matt
In October of last year I was reviewing information for an article I was writing on retention of emails....and came across this
The team here at Information Enterprises Australia noted with interest that emails were used as evidence in the United Kingdom's "Hutton Inquiry". In particular those emails sent and received by journalist Andrew Gilligan. The Hutton Inquiry was a British judicial inquiry chaired by Lord Hutton who was appointed by the British government to investigate the death of a government weapons expert, Dr. David Kelly.
As a result of the inquiry, changes to British Legislation occurred. The Retention of Communications Data Under Part 11: Anti-Terrorism, Crime & Security Act 2001 - http://www.hmso.gov.uk/si/si2003/draft/5b.pdf now stipulates that information relating to email traffic should be retained for a period of 12 months.
FYI - the article is now in our newsletter archive at http://www.iea.com.au
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Lorraine
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-----Original Message-----
From: The UK Records Management mailing list
[mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Matt walsh
Sent: Thursday, 1 September 2005 22:22
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Monitoring
Hello everyone my name is Matt Walsh and I am the coporate records manager
at Southwark council.
Does anyone have any infromation on how long web monitoring data should be
archived and kept for.
We are planning to keep 1 years worth of archived data unless anyone can
advise differently.
Any infomrtaion greatfully received
Regards
Matt Walsh
Corporate Records Officer.
London Borough of Southwark
2/F Central House
33 Peckham Road
London SE5 8UB
Tel: 020 7525 7166
Fax: 020 7525 7591
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