All posts in category EDiscovery

How EDiscoveryMap’s Monique Altheim Kept a Global Audience Informed in 2012 on Privacy, Ediscovery and Social Media

    A short recap of EDiscoveryMap’s Monique Altheim‘s activities in 2012 to help keep her global readers informed and up to date in the areas of Privacy, Ediscovery and Social Media:  She spoke on or moderated 11 panels at conferences, from Washington D.C. and  L.A. to Brussels, Belgium, Prague, Czech Republic and Punta del […]

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U.S. Ediscovery and Cross-Border Ediscovery 101 for Civil Law Practitioners

In a speech given at the 3rd Annual European Data Protection and Privacy Conference, in Brussels on 12/4/12, Viviane Reding addressed the reasons for the global interest in the European Commission’s proposed reforms to the EU Data Protection Regime: “Why is there so much interest in our data protection reform? …, because data protection is a global […]

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Digital Forensics and Privacy and Technology in Balance at the 34th International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners

The 34th International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Professionals was held this year in Punta del Este, Uruguay, on October 22-26. Uruguay enacted a comprehensive Data Protection Law, the Ley no. 183331, in 2008, and was recently declared a “third country with an adequate level of data protection” by the European Union.Uruguay was one of […]

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Ediscovery, Privacy, Data Protection and Social Media Weekly Updates

PCI Security Standards Council Issues Best Practices for Mobile Payment Acceptance Security http://t.co/ysSqm0Zp # Blue Cross Blue Shield discloses employee data breach http://t.co/CAf0fASH # NLRB Invalidates Costco’s Social Media Policy – As reported in the Hunton Employment & Labor Perspectives Blog, on S… http://t.co/nro6fMZ2 # Facing Fines for Contempt, Twitter Produces Defendant’s Tweets http://t.co/fVPy4wwx # […]

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E-Discovery Legal Issues for IT

  Lawyers are often labeled as “luddites” and their lack of understanding of technology is legendary. In an era, where almost all business records are in the form of electronically stored information, it has become essential for lawyers to become more technologically savvy. On the other hand, it is just as important for IT to […]

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U.S. Cross Border Ediscovery vs. EU Data Protection: Clash of the Titans

I recently gave a CLE presentation at the LegalTech West Coast Conference in Los Angeles on the legal problems and tensions of conducting U.S. civil litigation ediscovery in the European Economic Area (EEA), which consists of the 27 EU member states plus Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway. The subtitle “Clash of the Titans” derives from the […]

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Twitter Weekly Updates for EUdiscovery

“A Time Bomb For Civil Liberties”: France Adopts a New Biometric ID Card http://t.co/S1BKqwj5 #privacy #IAPPSummit # MT@FordhamCLIP Great summary of Cmr. Brill’s speech at #CLIPconf on risks of #bigdata misuse http://t.co/n3OArVZI #IAPPsummit #IAPP # Droids:Scan this QR to install a cool #privacy information app. #IAPP #IAPPSummit http://t.co/DwJYpr33 # Update on European Union Proposal to […]

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How EdiscoveryMap Kept You Informed in 2011

A short recap of EDiscoveryMap’s Monique Altheim‘s activities in 2011 to help keep her readers informed in the areas of Privacy, Ediscovery and Social Media: She attended nine conferences worldwide (Brussels, Lisbon, Mexico City, Washington D.C., Arlington, New York) related to Privacy, Ediscovery, Social Media and the Internet, to keep informed on the latest developments […]

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Attention EU Readers of EDiscoveryMap: We are bringing EDiscovery to Brussels on January 26

EDiscoveryMap is pleased to announce that Monique Altheim will moderate E-Discovery Sessions at the Computers, Privacy & Data Protection Conference (CPDP) in Brussels on January 26, 2012. The panels will feature an international roster of thought leaders and practitioners in the field of Cross-Border E-Discovery and EU Data Protection: Willem DEBEUCKELAERE, Privacy Commission (BE), Master Steven WHITAKER, […]

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How To Build Your Own Mobile App in Three Easy Steps: A Thanksgiving Primer

    Which professional has not entertained the wish to stay informed and in the loop, without having to spend hours of valuable time scouring the Internet for relevant information on a daily basis? The daily load of professional newsletters, email subscriptions, RSS feeds, real time Twitter feeds, Facebook news streams, and now Google plus […]

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