Court highlights “particularized need” for production of Metadata.....(yet again). Metadata, as highlighted in previous posts, is the “data about data” and a key-witness to eDiscovery proceedings; providing multiple forms of information and evidence on ESI. Although metadata is [...]
Read MoreSocial Media Evidence v Privacy Limitations
Nucci v. Target Corp [2015] If a photograph is worth a thousand words, there is no better portrayal of what an individual’s life was like than those photographs the individual has chosen to share through social media before the occurrence of an accident causing injury. Such photographs are [...]
Read MoreDigital Evidence: Preserving ESI
Brown v Tellermate Holdings Ltd., 2014 This employment discrimination case addressed the preservation of ESI (Electronically Stored Information) in cloud technology, when the defendants failed to preserve and disclose information from Salesforce.com (approximately 50,000 pages) that plaintiffs [...]
Read MoreSocial Media Evidence – MySpace
Griffin v Maryland [2011] A History of Social Media Evidence - MySpace Content The case was one of the first landmark cases to address the admissibility of social media evidence in trials, in the form of a MySpace printout. In this murder trial, the defendant’s girlfriend (Jessica [...]
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