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For legal purposes, are imaged checks equivalent to the original check?
03/19/2001
One question that has come up quite a bit in our bank, and we haven't found an answer, is what happens if we only retain the image copies of our customer's checks and the customer gets audited by the IRS and needs copies of some of them to prove certain payments? Will the image copies be acceptable to the IRS in lieu of the originals? Can you point me to any law, regulation, etc. on this?
What We Talk About When We Talk About Wireless
03/12/2001
By Paul J. Mulligan
Keeping A Good Hardware And Software Inventory
03/05/2001
Do you have any suggestions for keeping a good inventory of hardware and software? We have a lot of "Frankenstein" machines that have had so much stuff changed out on them (motherboard, memory chips, video card, sound card) that they are almost unrecognizable from the original specs, yet when it's time to figure out if a particular new piece of software will run on them, we need to know the current configuration. I'm hoping there's an easy way to do this.
Customer Selected Passwords: Are We Liable?
03/05/2001
Our customers select their own passwords in order to access their confidential information and transact business on our Web site. Do we have any liability if an unauthorized party obtains the password from our customer without our customer's consent? What if a hacker got into our system or our customer's?
Web Site Transactions, Disclosure, and Recordkeeping
03/05/2001
Is the information we receive and the records we maintain from customers who utilize our Web site to make transactions subject to the same rules and regulations regarding disclosure and being subject to subpoenas and requests for records?