Social Media Gives eDiscovery Indigestion
July 10, 2010
It seems everyone loves Facebook, Twitter and all the social media tools at our disposal. Everyone except e-discovery, that is. A recent ZD Net article, “Social Media a Nightmare for e-Discovery,” detailed growing difficulties for litigation discovery, which requires all relevant documents be submitted in court and reviewed. According to one electronic discovery representative, social media is, “creating phenomenal difficulties because you have employees creating information in pockets that are not controlled by general corporate governance policy, on servers that are generally not owned by a company and can often really skirt the edges of a company’s IP or relevant business documentation.”
This news isn’t surprising, since it seems every time technology opens a door for people, that same technology slams some windows shut. But, problems like this are what makes technology exciting because it often sparks innovation.
Do we need more evidence that casual assurances that social content is not big problem for search and content processing systems. Will an azure chip consultant endorse eDiscovery products that lack essential functionality? Does a byte reside on a solid state disc?
Pat Roland, July 10, 2010
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