The Mary Meeker Internet Trends 2015 Report | TechCrunch

If your life depends on technology, you better read this cover to cover. Kleiner Perkins partner Mary Meeker’s yearly Internet Trends report is the ultimate compilation of essential tech statistics, encompassing everything from Snapchat to drones, and smartphone penetration to on-demand food.

> Click here to access the 2015 Internet Trends presentation.

HBR Releases Results of Law Firm eDiscovery Strategy Survey | HBR Consulting

HBR Consulting recently released the results of its Law Firm eDiscovery Strategy Survey which identifies trends in law department electronic discovery (eDiscovery) operations and 2015 planning around staffing, technology, revenue, and strategy.

Key findings show, among other things, that law firms are providing perceived higher value advisory services, assisting clients with Information Governance challenges, advising in the defensible use of TAR, and managing the preservation/legal hold process for clients.

>Click here to access the 2015 eDiscovery survey results.

A Fundamental Shift in Security Spending | Pierre Audoin Consultants

Firms are shifting their cyber security spend away from traditional Prevent & Protect approaches towards Detect & Respond operations, according to Pierre Audoin Consultants (PAC). The new research found the shift in spending is due to a realization that cyber attacks are inevitable.

The study questioned 200 people from companies with more than 1,000 employees in the UK, France and Germany, which together account for 60% of the Western European cyber security market.

>Click here to learn more about security spending shifts.

Recent Developments Regarding the Legality of Government Data Collection Efforts | Brian Kennedy

Two federal appeals courts recently published significant opinions that redefine the scope of government access to phone records, setting the stage for a complex debate in Congress over the future of bulk data collection under the Patriot Act.

The pair of decisions, along with the outcome of a legislative debate that has roiled Congress this month, will define the permissible boundaries for government surveillance and contribute to the ongoing debate over government access to digital information in all forms.

>Click here to read the summary of both decisions as well as the congressional debate.

New Email Records Policy Takes Shape | Adam Mazmanian

A presidential directive requires agencies to manage email records in electronic form by the end of 2016, and the National Archives' plan to hit the goal is almost in final form.

NARA's Capstone guidance has existed in various draft forms since the summer of 2013. The plan is to designate certain senior officials at federal agencies whose email accounts are classified as permanent records, to be subject to eventual transfer to the National Archives. Now NARA is taking comments on a records schedule designed to implement the Capstone approach for email records management.

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Right Sourcing in eDiscovery | @ComplexD

As electronic discovery requirements continue to increase in light of the ever-expanding universe of digital data, many firms are questioning more than ever the way in which they conduct electronic discovery. In a market that has hundreds of products and service providers, there are many options available to those sourcing electronic discovery tasks. With this sourcing in mind, organizations are having to make important strategic decisions on whether they outsource or insource specific technology and expertise.

>Click here to learn more about right sourcing in eDiscovery.

Lexbe eDiscovery Platform's Integrated Translation Viewer | Lexbe

Lexbe eDiscovery Platform’s Integrated Translation Viewer allows users to upload translated versions of documents, generate multi-lingual search results, and review both english and foreign language versions within the same document record.

>Click here to learn more about Lexbe's Integrated Translation Viewer

Is Your Information Governance Plan Ready for the Internet-of-Things? | Sue Trombley

The widespread adoption of social and collaborative platforms means that businesses have to incorporate social media posts, texts, instant messages, tweets and online file sharing into the formal processes that manage information, from its creation and handling through to its storage and secure destruction.

Along the way organisations must consider security, compliance, and employee behaviour. As a consequence many businesses are discovering that existing rules are difficult to apply to information types that are unstructured, ephemeral, vast in volume and difficult to categorise.

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In Patent Case, Court Indicates Importance of Damages Disclosures to Proportionality Calculation | Electronic Discovery Law Blog

In this patent infringement case, the court addressed the “classic chicken-and-egg” problem of requiring initial disclosures regarding damages where “[t]o provide meaningful calculations, patentees need lots of information from accused infringers. But the expense of producing lots of information can only be justified by a meaningful calculation suggesting that substantial dollars are actually at stake.”

>Click here to read more about proportionality calculations.

2015 Cost of Data Breach Study | Ponemon Institute

The tenth annual Cost of Data Breach Study is the industry’s gold-standard benchmark research and is independently conducted by Ponemon Institute.

This year's the study found the average consolidated total cost of a data breach is $3.8 million representing a 23% increase since 2013. The study also reports that the cost incurred for each lost or stolen record containing sensitive and confidential information increased six percent from a consolidated average of $145 to $154.

>Click here to access the 2015 Cost of Data Breach Study.