Smart cities use IoT sensors to collect data that can improve city services and enhance citizens’ quality of life, but they also raise questions regarding data privacy and security. How should ediscovery professionals prepare for these new data sources?
Doorbell cameras are everywhere, passively recording what happens on front porches, driveways, and even public sidewalks around the country. In fact, you may have bought one for yourself or a loved one during a Cyber Monday sale this week. Many of these cameras come...
Using biometric data to identify people may still seem like the stuff of science fiction, but it’s here today, and it’s become widespread. Companies use biometric data because it’s hard to fake, which makes it useful for preventing fraud. However, its permanence also...
According to the 2019 Mid-Year QuickView Data Breach Report, the first half of 2019 saw 3,813 data breaches involving 4.1 billion records. The majority of those records — 3.2 billion, or nearly 75% — were exposed in just eight mega-breaches. Email data was exposed in...
Yale University has been in the news this month due to a data breach that started in 2008. That’s not a typo; it took Yale 10 years to realize that its security had been compromised. This situation brings into sharp focus the importance of not just avoiding security...
Last week we held our seventh annual PREX conference, an inspiring three days that brings together the best and brightest in-house legal minds to collectively cultivate better ediscovery practices and outcomes.
Chelsea Perez, a paralegal at the Humane Society of the United States, came on board specifically to help the nonprofit formalize and streamline its ediscovery process.She’ll be speaking at this year’s PREX, the Portland-based in-house ediscovery conference, to talk...
Western Power, Inc. v. TransAmerican Power Prods., Inc., No. H-17-1028 (S.D. Tex. June 7, 2018). In this contract dispute, the court considered whether it should sanction a party for the near-complete loss of discoverable evidence in a cyberattack. The plaintiff,...
In a joint survey conducted by Zapproved and Corporate Ediscovery, 185 in-house ediscovery professionals provided information regarding their litigation portfolios, processes across the ediscovery stages, departmental objectives, and challenges. The survey results...
The outcome of constructing an ediscovery practice often ends up resembling Frankenstein — a combination of disparate parts that work independently but create a bit of a mess when combined. The ‘monster’ ends up being too complex and inefficient, or isn’t built to...