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Department of Education Releases Guidance for Schools Regarding Terms of Service Offered by Providers of Online Educational Services

Hunton Privacy

The guidance, Protecting Student Privacy While Using Online Educational Services: Model Terms of Service, states that the TOS offered by providers of online educational services and mobile applications are often “Click Wrap” agreements requiring schools and districts to accept the TOS without an opportunity for negotiation.

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Increasing Your Technological Competence, Part 2

eDiscovery Daily

In 2015, the California Bar committee weighed in on the topic, providing a list of 9 skills needed for technological competence. While selecting the form of production, you must consider how the data and metadata will be presented. To ensure that the correct metadata fields (creation date, modification date, etc.)

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Metadata from Photos Leads to Dismissal of Case Against New York City: eDiscovery Case Law

eDiscovery Daily

While the plaintiff’s counsel (Jason Leventhal) objected to that request, he did agree to produce the photographs’ native files, which included metadata. The post Metadata from Photos Leads to Dismissal of Case Against New York City: eDiscovery Case Law appeared first on CloudNine. So, what do you think?

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SILENTFADE a long-running malware campaign targeted Facebook AD platform

Security Affairs

Upon stealing Facebook-related credentials, SilentFade retrieves the metadata of the Facebook account (i.e. Only through user education and strong partnerships across the security industry will we measure the scale of malicious campaigns and effectively respond to them.”.

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2017 eDiscovery Case Law Year in Review, Part 2

eDiscovery Daily

Peck ordered the defendants “to revise their Responses to comply with the Rules”, specifically Rule 34(b)(2)(B) and Rule 34(b)(2)(C), amended in December 2015 requiring objections to be stated with specificity and directing that an objection must state whether any responsive materials are being withheld on the basis of that objection.

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2018 eDiscovery Case Law Year in Review, Part 4

eDiscovery Daily

And we all thought that Rule 37(e) had the biggest impact from the 2015 Federal Rules changes when maybe it was actually Rule 26(b)(1)! Court Denies Defendant’s Request for Protective Order Against Producing Metadata for Medical Records : In Miller v. 2015: Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3 , Part 4.

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George Socha of BDO: eDiscovery Trends 2018

eDiscovery Daily

But first, this week’s eDiscovery Tech Tip of the Week is about The Importance of Metadata. Metadata is key to the management, tracking and retrieval of documents within the discovery process. If you don’t think metadata is important to a case, here are 10.8 You should know about the two sets of FRCP changes in 2006 and 2015.