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Title: INFORMATION SECURITY LAW


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INFORMATION SECURITY LAW
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Importance of Electronic Evidence
  • Electronic documents can be recovered more
    difficult to destroy than paper documents
  • Electronic documents often contain critical
    pieces of information (e.g., time, date, author)
  • Backups can be used to prove that critical
    documents have been altered

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Types of Electronic Evidence
  • Data files
  • Active data, replicant data, backup data,
    residual data
  • Electronic mail
  • Other information
  • Audit trails, computer logs, access control lists

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ELECTRONIC EVIDENCE AND CIVIL LAWSUITS
  • Stages in Civil Lawsuit
  • Discovery and Use at Trial of Electronic Evidence

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Stages in Civil Lawsuit
  • Pleading Stage
  • Pretrial Stage
  • Trial Stage
  • Post-Trial Stage

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Stages in Civil Lawsuit
  • Pleading Stage
  • Plaintiff Summons and Complaint
  • Defendant Answer, Counterclaim, Crossclaim

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Stages in Civil Lawsuit
  • Pretrial Stage
  • Discovery
  • Summary Judgment
  • Pretrial Conference

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Stages in Civil Lawsuit
  • Liberal Discovery
  • Information relevant to lawsuit or that may
    lead to relevant information
  • Exceptions privileged information, work product

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Stages in Civil Lawsuit
  • Discovery Methods
  • Interrogatories
  • Depositions
  • Production of Documents

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Discovery of Electronic Evidence
  • Rule 34 definition of documents includes
  • Data compilations from which information can be
    obtained
  • Rule 34 scope of discovery includes
  • copy, test or sample any tangible thing

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Discovery of Electronic Evidence
  • Computer stored information is discoverable under
    the same rules that pertain to tangible, written
    materials
  • Rowe Entertainment v. William Morris Agency
    (2002)
  • Defendants hard drive was discoverable since it
    was likely that relevant information stored on it
  • Playboy Enterprises v. Welles (1999)

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Discovery of Electronic Evidence
  • Court may limit discovery to protect against
    requests that are unduly burdensome or expensive
  • Demelash v. Ross Stores (2001)
  • Request for disks and tapes containing all files
    created, modified or accessed by five employees
    over a two and half year period was overbroad and
    unduly burdensome
  • Wright v. AmSouth Bancorp

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Discovery of Electronic Evidence
  • Court may shift some or all of the costs of
    obtaining electronic evidence to requesting party
  • Rowe v. William Morris Agency (2002)
  • Archived e-mails were only discoverable if
    requesting party paid part of the costs, given
    the lack of any showing that relevant information
    would be disocvered in the e-mails
  • Byers v. Illinois State Police (2002)

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Discovery of Electronic Evidence
  • Sanctions may be imposed if party fails or
    refuses to comply with a discovery request for
    electronic evidence
  • Crown Life Ins. V. Craig (1993)
  • Court ordered plaintiff to pay 10,000 to
    defendant for its failure to preserve e-mail
    records for five employees, defendant also
    allowed to do keyword search of plaintiffs
    databases
  • Proctor Gamble v. Haugen (1998)

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Trial Stage
  • Rules of evidence
  • Relevance of electronic evidence
  • Authentication of documents

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Relevance of electronic evidence
  • Evidence of offensive e-mails relevant in gender
    discrimination suit based on hostile work
    environment
  • Strauss v. Microsoft (1995)
  • Intra-company e-mails provided direct evidence
    that corporation was actively trying to destroy a
    competitor
  • Caldera v. Microsoft (1999)
  • E-mails of senior bank officials admissable to
    show that transactions were off-the-books loans
  • J.P. Morgan Chase Bank v. Liberty Mutual (2002)
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