Social Media Evidence Collection for eDiscovery

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Presented at TechnoSecurity&DigitalForensics 2019 by

Michael Riedijk

As the next evolution of the workplace evolves, the use of social media has also grown internally within teams. Chats, document sharing, internal groups, presentations and more count as official publications that can be used as evidence to attack or defend in a legal case. Learning how to properly collect electronic information for eDiscovery purposes is essential in ensuring evidence supporting high-stake cases, from threats, to fraud, harassment or selling illegal substances is not thrown out. During this session the presenter will use real-life cases involving public-facing and private social media to demonstrate; The unique challenges of social media evidence collection; The differences between archives, screenshots and backups; Applications of regulations and privacy laws like GDPR to social media content; The most commonly overlooked risks of using social media and; How to proactively establish strong information governance programs when rolling out external and internal social media across an organization.