The Fort Lee lane closure, “Deflategate,” Hillary Clinton’s emails—underlying these widespread and seemingly unrelated controversies are threads of online communication, linking the accused to allegations as much as the controversies to one another. In the upcoming “Private Network Servers, Deleted Emails and Texts, and Other Controversies in the News” session at LegalTech New York on Feb. 4, Jason R. Baron, of counsel at Drinker Biddle, and former director of litigation at the National Archives and Records Administration, is slated to discuss how e-discovery experts would have given advice in order to avoid these issues and other challenges around information governance. Here, he hopes to generate a larger conversation about “the digital world we’re in and the new kinds of evidence it’s generating.”

“[These controversies] all have a similar theme to them, which is that they involve the ability of individuals to use applications and communication networks that are essentially uncontrolled by organizations,” Baron says, describing the issues at play as “a newly emerging phenomenon” in the IG and e-discovery space. “Corporations and public agencies need to confront the fact that we all go to the Internet and can all use a variety of very cool applications which are not controlled by the IT staff in [their] settings.”

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