Remember those Staples "Easy Button" ads? In e-discovery, lawyers long for that big, red easy button to help us meet our client's duty to preserve electronically stored information. Especially in the emerging areas of cloud computing and social networking, the growing sense is that electronic data discovery is getting more difficult.
So, here's some unexpected good news: Cloud computing will make e-discovery easier -- a prediction lent credence by Facebook's offer of a one-button preservation tool for capturing user content.
You haven't heard about this? You are not alone. It should have been one of the most talked-about developments closing out 2010; but hardly anyone in EDD circles seems to know about it.
At a half-billion worldwide users, Facebook is the reigning sovereign of social networking. When Facebook concedes that users need an easy way to capture and collect the bulk of their Facebook account content offline, that's pretty remarkable. More, it tends to establish an industry benchmark that other social networking offerings can't ignore.
Last fall, Facebook quietly added a feature to Account Settings called "Download Your Information." Users wanting to collect a copy of their Facebook wall posts, photos, videos, messaging, friends lists, and other personal profile content can click a link and request that it all be neatly packaged in a Zip file for download.
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Source: law.com
By: Craig Ball
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