With Social Media Discovery as with much other Electronic Discovery, the key issue is often defining and managing burden. Begin with the end in mind – you need to know what you want and you need to know the paths and the obstacles to getting there. Can you cut to the chase with the opposing party? Need you leave yourself... Continue Reading...
Continue ReadingSocial Media Discovery & Evidence Part 2: Beast of Burden
It’s just not emails anymore
It is no secret that the means of communicating electronically are expanding at an ever-increasing rate. Within the last few years, e-discovery into communications has expanded from a largely email centered endeavor to one that includes texts, Facebook, Instagram, and other social media. More recently, the proliferation of messaging apps like Whatsapp, Viber, Snapchat, Marco Polo, Kik, Line, Slack and... Continue Reading...
Continue ReadingWhat Does Data Mining Facebook for Voter Information Have to Do with Your Litigation Strategy?
We have all recently heard about Cambridge Analytica mining Facebook users’ data through a variety of applications. We all probably know now that if we have a Facebook account, we need to pay attention to privacy settings to ensure that our posts are only directly available to those whom we want to see them. However, have you ever really considered... Continue Reading...
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