While 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 BYOD genie out of the bottle, the issues of data ownership, privacy and security that it often creates can be unavoidable.

Planet Data Solutions Inc., which provides e-discovery tools and consulting services, recently discussed the implications of BYOD and the data revolution on the corporate environment with Legaltech News. The company says that while tools designed to handle the issues 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. When electronic data did become prevalent, it came from either corporate or personal computers, but there was still a distinction between 'work data and your personal data.'”