Keypoint: Courts continue to issue conflicting decisions in wiretapping cases while one court has expanded who may be considered a “video tape service provider” under the VPPA. Welcome to the eleventh installment in our...more
This post provides tips from our eDiscovery experts on the identification and preservation of chat data during an investigation - Chat data will inevitably need to be collected for review if an investigation or dispute...more
The German Federal Labour Court has clarified the rules on when an employee who makes offensive comments about colleagues in a private chat can be dismissed. According to a recent decision of the German Federal Labour...more
Here are the highlights from our webcast on ediscovery for Slack, Teams and other collaboration apps. Watch the webcast here. Let’s think back to April 2020. Apologies if that’s a time period you’d rather forget...more
Collecting data from a California customer’s use of the chat feature on your website without first obtaining the customer’s permission may constitute a violation of Section 631(a) of the California Invasion of Privacy Act...more
While the need to collect, review, and produce chat messages isn’t a new phenomenon, the frequency of obtaining this data and the variety of applications to pull it from have increased. Online chats are quickly replacing...more
Social media offers powerful tools to help attorneys build relationships and promote themselves. It also offers a host of ethical traps. This article: 1. Outlines ethical pitfalls attorneys face when promoting themselves...more
New York City’s Conflicts of Interest Board has issued guidelines prohibiting elected officials from using official social media accounts for political purposes or having their staff draft content for their personal social...more
..Back to the future. Socially Aware readers – and editors – of, uhm, a certain age will fondly recall how, during the early days of the dotcom era, we hung out on message boards and in chat rooms discussing (some might say...more
On the same day as the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals determined President Obama's recess appointments are unconstitutional, the NLRB continued its assault on workplace rules and employee handbook policies. See DirecTV U.S....more