1. Group C

2.  There are about 250 billion emails generated everyday.  There are many problems and risks related to e-mail security like privacy, improper or illegal use, Virus attacks and many more.  All the problems related to emails are increasing everyday.

3.  there are a number of free services that allow users to send self destructing emails:  1)Big String: recalls and retracts a message after it has been sent based on the number of times the message is read/ the age of the email.  it also blocks the recipient from copying, forwarding or printing the message

4.  Self destructing email.com-works with the Web based email clients to enable the user to create a one time secure page for the recipient  Kicknotes.com-self-destruct based on times read and age  Stealth meassage.com- stores encrypted messages(the user can set the self destruct options and messages can't be forwarded

5.  Sdmessage.com(Self Destruct Message)- is wed based and messages self destruct 60 secs after they are viewed  RPost.com-is an add-on to Microsoft Outlook- for a monthly fee of $14.75, RPost alerts the sender that an email is received and opened...it can also verify that the content of the email is not altered  These and many others can be very useful in protecting your email but how is it with the modern corporate law?

6.  They are compatible in certain cases  The ability to eliminate, delete, destroy, or alter e-mails runs flat against the drift of modern corporate law.  E-mails is increasingly playing a role similar to postal mail and contracts in courts. It is even used as evidence of action, intention, and consequence.

7.  The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 requires all public firms to develop a reasonable policy of business record retention, including e-mail and instant messages.  A good retention policy cannot be selective, all documents need to be saved  Under the SOX, if you are convicted of changing, altering, or deleting business e-mail that is needed for a judicial process, you can be sentenced for up to 20 years in jail.