Extract from Chris Dale’s article “Hot Crime Scenes, Snowballs and the Cloud – AccessData on the Collection of Evidence Anywhere”
AccessData has been collecting data for criminal and civil purposes for decades. A lot has changed over that time – not just volumes, and the types and sources of data, but the urgency with which it must be collected and analysed.
Data used to be reasonably predictable – it was generated on static computers, stored in predefined places, and consisted of a limited range of data types.
