Where there are organizations with competing interests, there is sure to be litigation.  A party involved in litigation has a duty to preserve information that may be relevant to that litigation. In the past, this duty resulted mainly in storage of paper records. Today, however, the use of computers has created many more kinds of records — electronic records — that organizations are obligated to store. As quantities of electronic data have grown, the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) have been amended to regulate the storage of such data as it might apply to litigation.