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Now You See Them, Now You Don’t: Regulatory Risks of Ephemeral Messages

Data Matters

Corporate use of ephemeral messaging applications (communications that disappear after a set time) has become increasingly common across the globe in recent years, with companies recognizing its value in decreasing data storage costs and providing employees a convenient method for communicating quickly with customers and clients.

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Off the Record: Texting

The Texas Record

There is also some discussion about how to draw a hard line between personal information and public work – this is especially important to do when the way we communicate (via text, social media, WhatsApp, etc.) “ Data Preservation: Don’t Treat Discovery Like It’s 1999 “- IG Guru. Laying down the law on texts.

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Integrated Communications & Technologies v.Hewlett-Packard Financial Services Company (D. Mass. Aug. 13, 2020)

eDiscovery Law

Nature of Case: Breach of Contract Electronic Data Involved: Emails and Computers Keywords: adverse inference, sanctions View Case Opinion. Key Insight: Spoliation had occurred, but no default judgment issued. Evidence regarding destruction was allowed, no testimony from plaintiffs regarding unpreserved ESI and adverse inference instruction.

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European Data Protection Supervisor Publishes 2010 Annual Report; Sets Agenda for the Future

Hunton Privacy

He referenced his recent Opinion in which he concluded that the Data Retention Directive does not meet general EU data protection requirements and that the European Commission should explore the possibility of replacing it with alternative measures such as data preservation through a “quick freeze” procedure.

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Modernizing data collection with OpenText EnCase Information Assurance

OpenText Information Management

In today’s digital world, business communications are evolving, and organizations are adapting to new modern work environments.

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European Commission Presents Evaluation Report on Telecommunications Data Retention

Hunton Privacy

The Data Retention Directive requires that, for law enforcement purposes, telecommunications service and network providers (“Operators”) must retain certain categories of telecommunications data (excluding the content of the communication) for not less than six months and not more than two years.

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European Commission Issues New Cloud Computing Strategy

Hunton Privacy

The Commission’s strategy is outlined on a new webpage that includes a communication document and a more detailed staff working paper. The model contract terms also will incorporate new mechanisms that will be introduced by the proposed data protection regulation, such as those relating to data processor obligations.

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