FCPA Compliance Report-Episode 444, Jim Murphy on the Dangers in Using Slack
As work becomes more fast-paced, dynamic, and complex, Slack has emerged as one of the most popular instant communication platforms for modern workplaces. Not only does Slack enable seamless file sharing and smooth...more
Workplace collaboration and communication solutions like Slack and Microsoft Teams have firmly established their place in the enterprise. Now collaboration data is requested during eDiscovery just like email and other...more
Court rulings in the past few years have codified what people working in ediscovery have known all along: Slack (and other collaboration app data) is discoverable during litigation and should be preserved the same as email as...more
Organizations of all sizes have turned to modern, internal collaboration tools even more over the last three years. While these apps help businesses run more efficiently, they present new data discovery challenges and risks. ...more
If your organization uses Slack for business communications, how are you preserving Slack data for potential litigation? Until this year, there was only one way to guarantee the preservation of Slack data: by collecting it...more
As our work force has shifted to mobile and remote working practices (a trend in place before COVID, which only accelerated during the pandemic), businesses have turned to collaborative messaging tools such as Slack and...more
Placing defensible legal holds on Slack data has always required collecting the data to an external repository to preserve it while maintaining information governance policies, until now. Slack has added the ability to create...more
Slack, the massively popular file sharing and messaging platform, has changed communications and discovery as we know them. That’s because collaboration tools like Slack are quickly supplementing, if not replacing, email and...more
Corporate culture is changing. More people are working remote, meaning communication tools like Slack are increasingly being used. For in-house legal professionals this should set off alarm bells leading to this question... ...more
The collaboration platform that Slack launched led to an unprecedented shakeup in how organizations communicate internally—and that was before the coronavirus pandemic sent everyone home to work. Now that quarantining and...more
In this work-from-home world, collaboration applications like Slack have gone from the relatively small domain of IT and Development to expand, almost overnight, across the entire corporation. This dramatic shift means two...more
More and more companies are implementing Slack to get work done efficiently. From file sharing to messaging threads, to video calls and more, Slack is loaded with intricate, multi-faceted functions that boost productivity....more
Slack, the massively popular file sharing and messaging platform, is changing communications and discovery as we know them. That's because Slack, and similar tools, are quickly supplementing, if not replacing, email and...more
Slack is the new email - Slack has become a massively-important workplace collaboration tool that millions are using. We complained about email for years. Slack has answered that complaint and has successfully lured many...more