But Susan Landau, a former engineer at Sun Microsystems, and the author of a new book, "Surveillance or Security?," notes that, in 2003, the government placed equipment capable of copying electronic communications at locations across America.
They also argue that copyright holders are using the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to restrict the free expression of computer programmers like Dmitry Sklyarov, a Russian who was arrested in the United States this summer, accused of illegally distributing software that can enable consumers to copy electronic books.
The contents of each hard drive were copied for electronic storage.
All data in the databases were entered manually by trained technicians, usually being copied from electronic or paper medical records.
You have two choices for the format of the copy, hard copy and electronic copy.
Non-responders were sent up to four reminder emails over a three month period and if there was still no response, respondents were contacted by telephone and offered alternative means of completing the survey (via hard copy, electronic copy or by telephone).
The problem from Adobe's perspective, however, is that the same software could enable a pirate to copy an electronic book otherwise readable only with Adobe's reader technology -- then sell that copy to others without the publisher's permission.
The executive "truly believed that that was a legitimate line he was drawing" between hard copies and electronic copies of a document, Ms. Russell said.
Both hard copies and electronic copies of data are stored in a secure environment and adhere to security and confidentiality protocol as per the institutional ethics board and recommended guidelines [ 20].
Twenty-two valid copies of survey questionnaires were returned, including 12 hard copies and 10 electronic copies from both women (86%) and men (14%) ranging in age between 23 and 74.
