Linked – Mecklenburg County can’t provide texts, despite records law
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Linked – Mecklenburg County can’t provide texts, despite records law

It’s easy to claim text messages and other mobile communications are part of the official record, but again we see that actually preserving and collecting them, isn’t always so simply. “North Carolina law is clear: Text messages exchanged by government workers are public records. But Mecklenburg County doesn’t retain texts from county cellphones and officials’…

Linked – Social media genie won’t go back in the bottle, so we must teach youngsters to use it wisely
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Linked – Social media genie won’t go back in the bottle, so we must teach youngsters to use it wisely

Let’s face it. The internet isn’t going away. It’s here to stay, for better and worse. This article does a fair job of describing both the benefits to kids and teens of using social media and the internet in general, as well as the risks. They both exist, let’s not kid ourselves. Don’t hide your…

Linked – Lawyer’s ‘Inadvertent’ E-Discovery Failures Led to Wells Fargo Data Breach
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Linked – Lawyer’s ‘Inadvertent’ E-Discovery Failures Led to Wells Fargo Data Breach

Part of me can’t help but wonder how much training the attorneys at this firm attended, or if they were “too busy” to be bothered with learning how the eDiscovery review platform worked, or what the scope of work agreement with the vendor actually was? The event highlights the increasing risks of relying on unfamiliar…

Linked – Ransomware victims have paid over $25 million in the past two years, study finds
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Linked – Ransomware victims have paid over $25 million in the past two years, study finds

As long as there’s money to be made in it, ransomware will continue to be on the rise, and there is no doubt there is money in it.   “While it isn’t really suggested for victims to pay the ransom demanded by these malicious programs, it seems that many are still doing so. According to…

Linked – Texts Generate New E-Discovery Dilemmas for In-House Counsel
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Linked – Texts Generate New E-Discovery Dilemmas for In-House Counsel

As more organizations switch to BYOD policies, where people use their personal devices to get work email, for example, this is becoming a real concern for me. “No matter how in-house counsel choose to handle text messages, it’s wise to recognize employees’ privacy concerns, said Julia Brickell, executive managing director and general counsel at e-discovery…

Linked – Sweden leaked every car owners’ details last year, then tried to hush it up
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Linked – Sweden leaked every car owners’ details last year, then tried to hush it up

This seems like the kind of information you’d want to be super careful with, yet apparently, it’s exactly the sort of information that was sent in email, to a bunch of subscribers who weren’t supposed to have it. “The story goes back to 2015, when Sweden’s transport agency awarded IBM a contract to manage its…