Social Media, eDiscovery and the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure

posted by eDJ Syndicator at 8:49am on Jun 16th, 2010

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Fortune Magazine reported earlier this year [that] 79 percent of the United States' best companies use at least one of the most popular social networking services on the web to interact with customers. As often happens in the corporate world, smaller companies have followed suit and started using Twitter and Facebook to expand brand visibility and expand their customer base.

However, workers of these companies also use social media to interact with each other. As such, it is becoming increasingly important that organizations adopt measures similar to email archiving policies to prevent potential issues or punishment from regulatory authorities, should any of this correspondence become public.

Moreover, eDiscovery must change accordingly. Kathy Owen, a partner at law firm DLA Piper, recently told Compliance Week that eDiscovery users must change the way they store information. Meanwhile, eDiscovery vendors must begin implementing social media search methods into their solutions to help their customers adapt to the changing technology.

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Source: messagingarchitects.com
By: Pierre Chamberland

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