Social networking websites and other internet forums have, to differing degrees, eroded the personal privacy of their users. Often, this erosion is unintentional; often the technology and the information it reveals is not thoroughly understood; and often a third party’s ability to collect substantial and qualitatively important amounts of information is underestimated.

In any lawsuit, the collection of information on a party or witness is of paramount importance. What seems to someone like innocuous information — such as photographs of vacations and daily activities and postings to special-interest websites — can materially effect the outcome of a case.

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