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Morrison & Foerster’s Privacy Library, available I bet a lot of you are like me, you deal with a great at , is a convenient deal of unstructured information all day – a phone one-stop shop for nearly everyone’s privacy concerns number here, and snippet from a web site there, or an around the world. important idea out of the blue! Using an online note- The library links to the privacy laws, regulations, taking tool may be just the organizational tool that reports, multilateral agreements and government you’ve been looking for. Check out a few of the major authorities on the federal level, all 50 states plus players in the field listed below. territories, and more than 90 countries around the My favorite is the Google Notebook. It is very user world. Still under construction are links to key court friendly, allows you to export to Google Docs and is cases, enforcement actions and decrees on the federal backed up by a good name. So we will begin there. and state levels. Google Notebook has been up and running for about a Each state includes links to the state’s governing year and a half now so it has most of the “kinks” body in charge of privacy issues, usually the Attorney worked out of its system and functions very General, its privacy laws and regulations, concerning smoothly. 4 With Google Notes you can: a wide variety of topics including: identity theft, • Clip useful information. confidentiality of personal identifying information, • Organize your notes. Social Security Number privacy, destruction of • Get access from anywhere. customer records, banking and financial institutions – • You can share your Google Notebook with the depositor and customer records, notification for world by making it public. 5 compromised personal information, disclosure of • Clip information with a single click. customer financial records, automobile "Black Boxes," • Quickly add clippings of web content (images, text electronic eavesdropping, voter privacy, computer and links) straight to your notebook security breaches, wireless network security, medical • Add your own thoughts. information confidentiality, telemarketing: state • Click the "New note" button and start typing to do-not-call list, disclosure of personal credit informa- 1 add text notes to your notebook, or click the "Add tion, insurance - customer privacy. California had by comment" link within a note to add comments to far the most inclusive listing of topics and in the other clippings you've collected. extreme, SC, SD and WV at this time have no privacy • Search the full text of your notebooks. 6 laws listed. • Collaborate with others. The site launched just three months ago and was created as the result of the firm’s global presence of Zoho Notebook at is the most impressive. If you’re familiar researched for their clients, they amassed a vast with Microsoft OneNote, you’ve seen the basic Zoho resource of privacy materials and “it seemed a natural Notebook interface: progression to make this available to our clients and 2 • You can have multiple notebooks, each with friends via our website.” pages, sections, and notes that you can drag and The Privacy Library provides an easy way drop onto a two dimensional canvas. for clients to find the law - and this is the • Pages can be entire web pages, Zoho’s own online first step in any compliance strategy. From here, we can work with our clients to find spreadsheets or documents as well as notebook practical solutions for tailoring their pages. business operations to comply with these • Notebook pages allow you to include text, HTML, laws and regulations. 3 RSS feeds, audio/video clips or images. • You get versioning and sharing and commenting and publishing as well as a Firefox extension that Analysis Process can clip text and images from any page and shoot it over to an open notebook.7 Some effective techniques for the analysis of EDD

The service has just left beta, so don’t expect it to be document data include using search features, derived bug-free! But “for building up a rich notebook of metadata, guided navigation and visualization. varied content, Zoho Notebook is currently [the] one A subcategory of metadata, known as derived to beat.” 8 Be sure to watch their YouTube video metadata, is important because it provides additional demonstration of its versatility at: youtube.com/watch?v=sfJFBcF_6cE>. include key phrases, contextual groups, directory information and categories, and clusters. It can be Yahoo! Notepad at is automatically derived from metadata by the use of on the simple side. You get a single note-taking area, intelligent software and analysis tools. 11 which you can organize one level deep with folders. Guided navigation, which can be imagined as a Inside of folders you store notes, which are just plain combination of browsing and search, has many advan- text entered through an old-fashioned web form. On tages. It can present a quick overview of the big the plus side, this application should run on just about picture, help analyze information sets, and allow the any browser anywhere; but you won’t find any reviewer to quickly determine which parts of the advanced features, not even browser extensions or collection are important. Categories presented may tagging. 9 include people, recipients, date ranges, departments, Stikkit at is at the other contextual groups, topics, key phrases and so forth. 12 end of the spectrum. It is “perfect for the developer Visualization is a technique that reveals data who wants to tie their notes to other applications. via pictures rather than simply words. It's Though you can treat it just as an attractive way to often easier to understand relationships store yellow sticky notes online, there’s a whole sea of between people, topics or items by viewing complexity lurking beneath that friendly surface. an image rather than attempting to piece together a connection by reading text. Stikkit understands dates and reminders and tagging and bookmarks and e-mail and sharing; it actually Three common useful visualizations that looks at the text of your notes and tries to act intelli- software tools can create include social net- gently on them. There’s a whole API you can interact work analysis, context group structure and topical cluster analysis. 13 with as well. While the learning curve for Stikkit can be steep, if you’re the sort of user who digs applica- Read about them at footnote 13 below. tions like QuickSilver it’s worth a look.” 10 By Nancy Stinson, MLS Footnotes [email protected]

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