“A chat Ralph Losey and Jason R Baron” : Data privacy and security breaches, e-discovery sanctions, recordkeeping compliance penalties. Talk to an information governance believer and they’ll tell you these are risks borne by organizations that fail to effectively control their information. Control your information, or your information controls you. And it will get worse. Information governance includes figuring out what kinds of machine learning techniques work well in a variety of settings where law, information management, and business intelligence intersect.
The “search is first” crowd says “No way”. They think the preoccupation with classification, retention, and destruction of data would soon stop being a viable, efficient activity. It cannot withstand the continuing exponential growth of data. Instead, they suggest we best focus on the googlesque approach: save everything and search instead of classify.
And so there is a divide. A search-versus-information governance issue. Ralph Losey and Jason R Baron put it in perspective.