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Do’s and Don’ts of Text Message Discovery

eDiscovery Daily

Discovery requests of the past had little reason to include text messages as a form of evidence. Emails were the primary concern since they held the bulk (if not all) of business communications. Corporate servers stored the data, regardless of how the email was sent or received (via mobile device or work computer).

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Wannacry, the hybrid malware that brought the world to its knees

Security Affairs

Reflecting on the Wannacry ransomware attack, which is the lesson learnt e why most organizations are still ignoring it. The dropper, once copied on the computer, attempted to connect to a site and only if the connection failed, proceeded to install two components, a cryptolocker and an exploit.

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Judge Recommends Sanctions for Defendant Under FRCP 37(e)(1): eDiscovery Case Law

eDiscovery Daily

One of the plaintiff’s alleged harassers left the company a mere two days after that, but his computer was wiped within 7 days of his last day at work. Noting that the “failure to preserve electronic evidence is covered by Fed.R.Civ.P. Noting that the “failure to preserve electronic evidence is covered by Fed.R.Civ.P.

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Simon Says – Once, Twice, Three Times a Spoliator: eDiscovery Case Law

eDiscovery Daily

He further said that he would create the system based on knowledge acquired during his 15 years at ScholarChip and added that he would be communicating with and soliciting business from the plaintiff’s customers that he learned about through his work at ScholarChip for the plaintiff. The next month, the plaintiff filed this lawsuit.

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Indonesia Soon to Become the Fifth ASEAN Country to Adapt Data Privacy Laws

Security Affairs

On January 28th, Indonesia’s Ministry of Communication and Information Technology announced that the final draft for the Personal Data Protection Act has been submitted to the president of Indonesia. Data controllers are the parties that determine the purpose and control the processing of data such as e-commerce platforms.

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Former Football Players Sanctioned for Failure to Produce: eDiscovery Case Law

eDiscovery Daily

In Michael E. Electronic Arts, Inc., Three former NFL players claimed that Electronic Arts (EA) used their likenesses in the Madden NFL videogame series without authorization. email, going all the way back, for communications between [Plaintiffs] and other people who are not lawyers about this case.” Davis, et al.

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What’s a Lawyer’s Duty When a Data Breach Occurs within the Law Firm: Cybersecurity Best Practices

eDiscovery Daily

When I spoke at the University of Florida E-Discovery Conference last month, there was a question from the live stream audience about a lawyer’s duty to disclose a data breach within his or her law firm. Please remove all laptops from docking stations & keep turned off. *No No exceptions*. And, Model Rule 1.4