eDiscovery in Today’s Complex Mobile Environment

I Pad, I Phone, Droid, Blackberry; today the variety of electronic devices is constantly growing.

However, these electronic devices are essentially “cloud viewers” or “cloud viewing devices”. When you access these “cloud viewing” devices where is your personal data stored? Service messages and data can be almost anywhere, which creates a serious privacy concern.

There are many clouds we don’t realize that we use. Verizon and other navigator products can track the location of a customer. GPS tracking can locate where a driver is and when, or retrieve discovery items for personal injury cases.

In addition, when we utilize our Blackberry or iPhone we don’t simply access the “web”. Instead we might access applications that run on our device, or what we call “apps”. What many don’t know is that several of these “apps” often access and copy our data items to local storage.

How does all of this affect the eDiscovery process? This complex mobile environment creates a situation where personal and business communications are entirely mixed together.

CTO and Founder of Digital Reef, Steve Akers, at a panel during The New York City Masters for Legal Professionals Conference, posed the question; what is discoverable? How does IT identify a “business record” in a discovery context amid a sea of personal and private data?

Below is a recording of a panel moderated by Steve Akers, CTO and Founder of Digital Reef. Panelists include Daniel Garrie, ESQ, Special Master and Mediator in eDiscovery and Daniel K. Gelb, Gelb & Gelb LLP. In this video industry experts explore all the issues around electronic conveniences and the privacy concerns they raise.