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eDiscovery: Frequently Asked Questions

Traditional discovery is the initial phase of litigation when all parties are required to provide records and evidence relevant to a specific case. However, thanks to the explosion of electronically stored information (ESI), discovery must now work alongside eDiscovery—a process that involves the identification, preservation, collection, retention, and review of data in an electronic format. This makes the discovery exponentially larger and more complex.

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eDiscovery: Frequently Asked Questions

Traditional discovery is the initial phase of litigation when all parties are required to provide records and evidence relevant to a specific case. However, thanks to the explosion of electronically stored information (ESI), discovery must now work alongs

Combating ransomware attacks with dark web investigations

Ransomware attacks are on the rise, but sophisticated dark web forensics and tools are helping investigators to transform the dark web from a murky and lawless online environment, into a treasure trove of evidence and information. In the 1900s, organised

How Optical Character Recognition (OCR) Revolutionizes eDiscovery and Online Investigations

Businesses generate documentation and data at a rapid pace, both on and offline. Industries like banking and the financial sector regularly manage thousands of different types of documents. Keeping up with this cumulative documentation can be difficult an

What Is Chain Of Custody?

Chain of custody, in a legal context, can refer to both physical and electronic evidence. With the huge increase in the leverage of the latter within litigation cases, today, chain of custody is a key requirement of any eDiscovery process.

What Is A Legal Hold?

Unlike some other eDiscovery processes, a legal hold reaches far beyond your legal department and can potentially impact personnel across your whole business.

What Is Optical Character Recognition (OCR)?

Optical character recognition (OCR) offers organizations the opportunity to get a much better digital handle on the information they store.

Cybercrime Update: CatPhishing

Ways to Protect Yourself Online from "Crooked Sweethearts" Catphishing (or “Catfishing”) is a “romance scam” and form of fraud, highly popularised by the use of social media networks, online chat forums and documentary-turned television series by the same

The Eerie Evolution of Deepfake Videos – Can Your Collection Methods Keep Pace?

Not long ago, deepfake videos – videos that portray something in a very convincing way but are actually entirely false - were something that largely existed in Hollywood – the product of special effects studios and experts trained to make the fictional se

How to Capture Evidence on Facebook – Before it Disappears

On January 7th, 2025, Meta announced they will be making major changes to content moderation policies on all their owned platforms, including Facebook: ending third-party fact-checking in the US in lieu of a new "Community Notes" feature, lifting restrict

The Power of Precedent in a Digital Age

Those who practice law understand and appreciate the power of precedent. As technology evolves, and as our digital world continually expands, the law is evolving with it. Courts across the country are continuing to examine social media as evidence the sta

    Is SHA-256 secure? Legal & Compliance Experts Say Yes—Here’s Why

    SHA-256 is one of the most widely used cryptographic hashing algorithms, playing a crucial role in securing digital information. Part of the Secure Hash Algorithm 2 (SHA-2) family, SHA-256 ensures data integrity, safeguards sensitive information, and authenticates digital evidence and records in legal and compliance scenarios.

    Social Media vs. Compliance — The Major Marketing Problem Stumping Financial Services

    These days, you'd be hard-pressed to find an business that isn't advertising on social media. But when it comes to financial service providers, social media marketing can become a double-edged sword, or worse a compliance nightmare that results in major fines from the SEC, FINRA or the FTC.