'BYOD' Means Problems in Discovery
Use of personal devices risks comingling of private and corporate data.
July 17, 2015 at 06:44 PM
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The original version of this story was published on National Law Journal
Although convenient for employees and less expensive for organizations, bring-your-own-device policies add new repositories of information to the corporate environment that can complicate the discovery process and add access points for cybercriminals looking to compromise corporate information. But, with the genie out of the bottle, the problems of data ownership, privacy and security that it often creates can be unavoidable.
Planet Data Solutions Inc., which provides electronic-discovery tools and consulting services, believes that although tools designed to handle the problems are improving, we're still in a transitional period for handling the fallout of the mobile ecosystem.
Howard Reissner, chief executive officer of Planet Data said, “There's been a real change in the last several years in terms of the amount of data being created, but also in the general right to privacy. Prior to 1980, there was a general expectation that your personal information was private, past a subpoena or civil litigation.
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