FCPA Compliance Report-Episode 444, Jim Murphy on the Dangers in Using Slack
Electronic communication has come a long way in a few short decades. In 2006, Rule 34 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure was amended to confirm that discovery of electronically stored information stood on equal footing...more
In the legal operations realm, eDiscovery has always been a critical function, but the rapid advent of digital technologies has dramatically increased its complexity. While these advancements offer new tools for communication...more
The International Data Corporation (IDC) estimates that by 2025, the world will have 175 zettabytes of digital data—which, if stored on DVDs, would create a stack tall enough to circle the earth 222 times. As organizations...more
Workplace collaboration tools like Slack and MS Teams have become ubiquitous in many organizations. However, they also present unique challenges for data governance and ediscovery in the event of litigation. To avoid...more
Remote, in-office, or hybrid — Slack has become an indispensable tool for companies looking to support productivity, no matter where it happens. Think of Slack as a digital headquarters for businesses, relied on daily by...more
Collaboration during litigation is critical to ensure that all relevant information is discovered and reviewed. However, the emergence of various communication platforms like Slack and Teams has made the process more...more
Collaboration data is essential for many businesses in the digital age. However, determining how long to keep records on communication tools like Slack and Teams has become a challenge due to legal cases....more
Slack is a trailblazer in modern workplace communication. As more companies look to Slack as their primary communication tool, a growing volume of business records and sensitive information accumulates on its platform. From…...more
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
Remember the days when you wanted to look for a document using the file manager on your desktop and you’d forgotten exactly where it was stored? It would take forever and sometimes freeze the operating system, and then you...more
Editor’s Note: On November 16, 2022, HaystackID shared an educational webcast on the proliferation of enterprise messaging content in the COVID-era, a proliferation accelerated by the pre-existing industry trend of legal...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 businesses shift away from single-suite software and embrace best-of-breed cloud applications such as Slack, Microsoft Teams, and Zoom, data volume continues to grow at an accelerated rate. This poses new challenges for...more
Managing data preservation for ediscovery requires walking on a knife’s edge. As soon as you can reasonably anticipate a litigation matter, you must rapidly identify and preserve any relevant data. But between litigation...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
In the last few years, data privacy laws and regulations have been big news. Much of the coverage—including one of our recent blog posts—concerned website compliance. Companies scrambled to post notices and forms on their...more
Organizations of all sizes are experiencing a wave of data like they've never seen before. Increasing data types from collaboration and cloud applications, such as Slack, Microsoft 365, Google Drive, and more, are impacting...more
If your organization uses Slack, you’re already familiar with its benefits: rapid, streamlined internal communications without the hassle of emails. You can set up a meeting with a few quick messages and an internal Zoom...more
Organizations that rely on Slack to facilitate collaboration and business communications know that the content within can be responsive to discovery obligations or crucial for internal investigations. Unfortunately, native...more
Last week, I provided a preview for the upcoming Legalweek event, which happened this Tuesday. Here are a few of the highlights from the event in terms of sessions I attended, including (of course) the Ipro happy hour! ...more
As the coronavirus pandemic has left most knowledge workers clocking in from home, we’ve seen a rapid acceleration of organizations using collaboration tools like Slack to keep their teams in touch. But while collaboration...more
Collaboration tools like Slack have revolutionized the way we work, helping teams be more productive than ever before. In early 2020, as widespread remote work took hold, Slack’s concurrent users jumped from 10m to 12.5m in a...more
Slack is on a mission to revolutionize how people work. With regular new feature rollouts, such as Slack Connect and the much-anticipated legal hold API, there’s a lot to keep track of when it comes to eDiscovery. Join us for...more
Enterprises who've adopted Slack know the content adds up quickly across channels, direct messages, and group communications. Information governance is critical for mitigating risk. However, making informed decisions about...more
Collecting data from a dynamic collaboration app like Slack is no easy feat at the best of times. Now, as more and more courts consider it to be relevant ESI, that data has to be produced in a defensible format that’s ready...more