eDiscovery Journal

Executive Mobile Content Gone Rogue

In my experience, founders and C-level executives make the worst legal hold custodians. I have learned to review executive expense reports prior to supporting preservation interviews or issuing notices when possible. Too many execs shun email or messaging platforms that preserve communications. New generation technologies such as ModeOne can selectively preserve mobile via app or scheduled incremental collections while minimizing custodian impact. All too [...]

By Greg Buckles|2023-06-05T12:06:08-05:00June 5th, 2023|Caselaw, Collectors, Compliance, News, Privacy, Legal Holds|0 Comments

Microplagiarism – Is GPT Stealing Your Work?

“Write a paper on analytic data visualization in the voice of Skip Walter.” That was the rough GPT3 prompt my mentor Skip submitted in our early testing of OpenAI GPT-3 playground. A lifetime rich in academic, professional and patent publications gave GPT-3 more than enough source content to create a convincing literary product. Convincing until Skip started finding familiar sentences and chunks of verbiage [...]

By Greg Buckles|2023-04-25T15:44:00-05:00April 25th, 2023|Analytics, Regulations, Essay, Privacy, Security, Analysis, ESI Sources|0 Comments

Detecting the Departing

The article gives some excellent caselaw consequences that should nudge corporate legal to reassess their employee departure policies and remedies available when data walks out the door. As I mentioned in my recent blog covering M365 Records Management, #Microsoft is adding a ‘Leavers’ classifier to public preview for premium E5 license customers.

By Greg Buckles|2022-07-25T16:25:33-05:00July 25th, 2022|Caselaw, Info Gov, Investigation, Compliance, News, Privacy, Security, Content Management, ESI Sources|0 Comments

The Great Resignation, Return or Reshuffle? Part 2

A recent Zapier survey on the future of work polled 600 #knowledgeworkers from SMB companies. 64% said that remote work makes them more productive. While they feel more productive, how can remote professionals demonstrate that productivity without giving up their privacy? The Great Reshuffle is about the evolving employee-employer relationship more than just where we perform that work. Monitoring utilization, security and work [...]

By Greg Buckles|2022-05-16T15:06:08-05:00May 16th, 2022|Info Gov, Analytics, Corporate, Essay, Compliance, Privacy, Security, Content Management, ESI Sources|0 Comments

How Locked Down Are Your Users?

I have been alpha testing some new tech recently and ran into wildly different levels of user endpoint security across global enterprise environments. None of the endpoint security surveys I found included practical strategies and policy practices restricting user access to external cloud applications, browser extensions, desktop apps and mobile apps. I wrote a quick survey covering these and hope that you are as [...]

By Greg Buckles|2022-05-03T16:19:10-05:00May 3rd, 2022|Essay, Privacy, Security|0 Comments

User Recommendations – Privacy Red Flag?

I spend a lot of time reading Microsoft’s Roadmap or listening to M365 related podcasts while I hike with our dogs (got to exercise the meat puppet). This addiction started when all of my clients were asking about the #eDiscovery/#Infogov implications of their impending or recent migration to the cloud. Better to be ahead of them than constantly saying, “I will find out and [...]

By Greg Buckles|2022-03-28T19:19:29-05:00March 28th, 2022|Essay, Privacy, Search|0 Comments

Ready for LegalWeek NY 2022?

The Omicron @LegalWeek push back and my diving vacation killed my packed February briefing schedule. Fourteen days out I responded to a fresh batch of briefing/speaking requests and pinged some of my favorite folks to see if I could piece it back togeth er. Grateful that less that 24 hours later my show calendar is filling up. I hope that your time in NY [...]

By Greg Buckles|2022-02-23T12:56:24-06:00February 23rd, 2022|Caselaw, Essay, Regulations, Compliance, Privacy|0 Comments

Incognito Does Not Mean What You Think It Means

Google’s definition of ‘private’ is slowly coming to light thanks to a $5B class action lawsuit and recent Congressional hearings. There seems to be some emails and second hand accounts supporting the assertion that Google executives were well aware of how the public might react if they found out that Google and other sites could still track user searches, URL’s and actions while in [...]

By Greg Buckles|2021-09-27T10:36:44-05:00September 27th, 2021|Caselaw, Essay, Compliance, Privacy, Security|0 Comments

Apple Scanning ALL U.S. iPhones in a BYOD World

Apple plans to start scanning all U.S. iPhones for images of child sexual abuse using a tool called “neuralMatch” or “NeuralHash” against a database of known images. Womble Dickinson’s JDSupra article covers many of the high-level privacy concerns and explores Apple’s plans for a service that will scan encrypted messages for sexually explicit content to provide parental notice. Using a generated hash to check [...]

By Greg Buckles|2021-08-13T12:26:22-05:00August 13th, 2021|Info Gov, Essay, Investigation, Compliance, Privacy, Security, Content Management, ESI Sources|0 Comments

IM eDiscovery: Resurrecting the 5000:1 Rule

One of my Litsupport team wearing the departmental t-shirts. Used with permission Blame Jonathan Maas for reminding me of my 5000:1 rule from the Enron email review. “For every 5,000 emails we review someone gets fired.” To put that rule in late 1990’s context, everyone having a corporate email account was still a relatively new thing. Just like the pandemic driven adoption [...]

By Greg Buckles|2021-01-12T12:38:17-06:00January 12th, 2021|Essay, Collectors, Compliance, Legal Holds, Privacy, ESI Sources|0 Comments