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More and more, social media is being used as evidence against the wealthy in cases of fraud, according to a recent article in The Telegraph, which states that, according to leading cybersecurity firms, “social media posts are used as evidence in around 75 per cent of all litigation cases.”
This falls in line with what Dera Nevin, Director, E-Discovery Services, Proskauer Rose LLP, stated in a recent interview: “E-Discovery will appear to be business as usual for a short time. However, the character and composition of E-Discovery data is changing and will move beyond email and current productivity applications, such as the MS Office suite and PDF. The younger demographic has turned to texting and instant messaging, often through multiple simultaneous channels, and prevailing data will include text, video, audio, social media, and new metadata structures within the same data artifact. The underlying shift in the data will require new tools and methods to preserve, retrieve and search and review these data types.”
She goes on to suggest that, “While enterprise technology lags consumer applications, corporations are moving to structured systems for business information and communications, and are also moving to the Cloud.