eDiscovery Journal

A Sort of Case Study on Reviewing Next Gen ESI

Ideally case studies lay out enough information about the challenges, pain points, approach strategies and metrics to calculate a decent ROI and give readers a peak into solving a particular problem. This SEC inquiry case study focuses on search/review/production issues for new generation collaboration systems like WhatsApp. Deduplication and conversation thread reconstruction is indeed a pain point, especially when execs were using multiple mobile [...]

By Greg Buckles|2020-07-21T11:45:57-05:00July 21st, 2020|Provider, News, Compliance, Processing, Review, ESI Sources, Production|0 Comments

Mobile ESI Processing Everywhere – What About Collections?

While I am happy to see nimble cloud eDiscovery providers tackling the processing/review of mobile device ESI, I still want to see practical solutions for ongoing mobile device preservation and remote collection.

By Greg Buckles|2020-07-21T11:25:48-05:00July 21st, 2020|News, Processing, Analysis, Review, ESI Sources|0 Comments

Preservation Collections for Remote Custodians

The Covid-19 pandemic has made remote work and home offices the new normal. Many corporations have already consolidated large corporate headquarter leases to the minimum footprint. The migration of large corporate data centers to Amazon S3 or Azure cloud servers has been going on for the last decade. So where does your critical ESI under hold live now? The reality is that your custodian’s [...]

By Greg Buckles|2020-07-07T16:53:43-05:00July 7th, 2020|United States, Essay, Preservation, Collectors, Collection, Legal Holds, ESI Sources|0 Comments

Forensic Requests of Body Worn Camera Data

I was reading a well researched news story in the aftermath of the Fort Lauderdale protests that turned into a violent confrontation between police and protesters. Several items caught my attention that could have impact on events that result in litigation/discovery during this time of discord. Body Worn Cameras (BWC) and video surveillance are more commonplace now than ever. Many of my industrial clients require that certain employees wear BWCs or have vehicle/facility cameras that operate on similar technologies. I intend to stay away from politics on essays in the eDiscovery Journal. As a former police criminalist I am very interested in evolving technologies to record and reconstruct incidents. In this and many other recent confrontations, police departments state that BWC footage is not available because the cameras were not turned on. Let’s discuss what data is available to an investigator or requesting party.

By Greg Buckles|2020-06-29T17:47:40-05:00June 29th, 2020|United States, Investigation, Essay, Collectors, Preservation, Collection, Processing, Analysis, ESI Sources, Review|0 Comments