Who accidentally joins a mafia? Accident or not, the Exterro search bar has you covered.  Who says e-discovery isn't funny? If you're looking for an additional laugh, you can always visit our entire catalog of E-Discovery Memes and Cartoons, and feel free to share the fun with friends and colleagues. Remember, E-Discovery is always better when you have a sense of humor. Cheers! Read More

Individuals have the right to access their personal data under GDPR through a process commonly referred to as a DSAR (Data Subject Access Request). Data subjects can make a request verbally or in writing, and the organisation must fulfil that request within a one-month time-frame, otherwise they will not be GDPR compliant and can face severe consequences in the form of fines. It can be a very complicated and challenging process to defensibly respond to DSARs, especially within large enterprises where having to deal with high volumes of complex or specific requests... Read More

Overview: The Federal Trade Commission is proposing new cybersecurity requirements to its Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) safeguard rules. A central tenet of New York State Department of Financial Services policies, as well as current FTC guidance on reasonable security, is data retention. Why is This News Important: Under the proposed rule, financial institutions would need to designate someone within the company as responsible for overseeing the institution’s information security program. Financial institutions would also be required to periodically perform additional risk assessments, regularly test and monitor the effectiveness of its program, and have... Read More

While most e-discovery solutions in the market can scope, configure, and collect data from Slack and other applications, Global 2000 companies face unique legal challenges due to their size and organizational structure. These challenges tend to require more advanced features than what manual processes (or even basic e-discovery tools) can offer. The following key considerations will help your legal team in selecting the right e-discovery solution for Slack data collection.  1. Can you collect Slack conversations prior to 2018? Litigation is almost always for an incident that happened years prior. Slack APIs... Read More

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As we often cover here, vendors are a significant source of risk. Your network of suppliers is legally obligated to comply with all aspects of the GDPR to ensure consistency and true protection for consumers. And although it's not identical to GDPR rules, the nature of the U.S.'s California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) make vendor management an incredibly important aspect of privacy compliance for many global companies—a good portion of whom likely have a large enough presence in California to warrant regulatory governance by the law. If your vendors are not compliant... Read More

The COVID-19 pandemic has been raging for nearly five months now, and as infections continue to climb, so too does the legal liability of many businesses. To name just a few impacts, these increased risks have forced General Counsel to play a larger role in business decisions to help manage the Legal Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) strategies; created new data types—and therefore new threats for e-discovery—for which organizations may not have had prior data retention strategies; and wreaked general havoc on organizations and their legal departments. And then there's the direct... Read More