eDiscovery Data Points from ComplexDiscovery

According to Ken Basore, GM Enterprise Solutions at Cellebrite, “Corporate investigators are under serious pressure, now having to face the additional challenge of sourcing data to support cases from a geographically scattered hybrid workforce, who are using more devices and messaging services than ever before for professional communications. Today’s announcement underscores the strategic importance of Cellebrite’s cloud capabilities and our commitment to ensure enterprise investigators can adapt to a hybrid workforce.”

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From Ipro and Disco to Nuix and Lighthouse, the following findings, data points, and tracking charts highlight information that may be useful for understanding M&A+I activity patterns in the eDiscovery ecosystem from July 1, 2021, through September 30, 2021. During 3Q21 there were at least 14 M&A+I events, a pulse rate that is the same as the investment pulse rate during the same time frame in 2020.

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This one-hour panel presentation, presented at the 2021 Privacy + Security Fall Academy on September 30, 2021, provides viewers with a framework and solutions for deploying privacy-based information governance technologies, tactics, and strategies to help their organization comply with the ever-changing landscape of data privacy laws, while also reducing their exposure in the event of a security incident when sensitive data has been compromised by threat actors.

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Given the recent surge in merger filings and the Commission’s obligation to protect Americans from illegal transactions, the Bureau of Competition is instituting new process reforms to best to use its limited resources. One of those reforms is that FTC second requests will now require each company under investigation to provide information about how it intends to use eDiscovery tools before it applies those tools to identify responsive materials. Complete and accurate information is critical in any investigation and there are substantial benefits to ensuring up front that eDiscovery processes will identify required information. In addition, this change will more closely align the FTC’s model second request with that of the Department of Justice.

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According to Brad Harris, VP of Product at Hanzo, "This new feature is Hanzo's first entry into visual analytics born from the work we did with The Sustainable Innovation Fund with Innovate UK grant. We've been building models to take complex data sets and extract value and meaning with visual context. When you have massive amounts of data, results in a simple grid view are tough to parse through to gain meaningful insights. From this foundational work, we're looking forward to adding toolsets to help enterprises gain more intelligence about the content of their data, whether it's PII or sentiment analysis."

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According to a statement by the FTC majority, the 2020 Vertical Merger Guidelines had improperly contravened the Clayton Act’s language with its approach to efficiencies, which are not recognized by the statute as a defense to an unlawful merger. The majority statement explains that the guidelines adopted a particularly flawed economic theory regarding purported pro-competitive benefits of mergers, despite having no basis of support in the law or market reality.

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Even with disparate focus elements and a purely hypothetical product offering, AI-enabled writing appears to have an exciting place in the future of content marketing. As exemplified in this short, just for fun exercise with a beta version of a writing assistant, AI-enabled content tools appear to be able to quickly provide suggestions and samples that can help inform additional content development. From product marketing to counter-marketing, it will be interesting to see how content generation changes over time with the advancement of productivity services supported by AI.

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From countering ransomware to predictive coding and packaged services, the September 2021 edition of the Five Great Reads on Cyber, Data, and Legal Discovery newsletter provides a selection of recent research, reports, and articles to update and inform cybersecurity, information governance, and eDiscovery professionals on cyber, data, and legal discovery.

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According to Mike Williams, CEO of Mitratech, "The combination of Alyne and Mitratech brings a game-changing solution to the legal, risk and compliance industry. There’s increasing overlap between legal and compliance challenges, so there’s a real need for an intelligent platform that empowers cross-disciplinary integration and oversight. Organizations now have the ability to harness AI to instantly reveal and quantify risk, collaborate, increase efficiency, and create unrivaled operational resilience.”

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This new report titled “Beyond Debiasing: Regulating AI and its inequalities” and commissioned by European Digital Rights (EDRi), an association of civil and human rights organizations from across Europe, outlines the limits of technical debiasing measures as a solution to structural discrimination and inequality through AI systems. It shows the vast impact of AI-based systems on the governance, operations and financial stability of public sector organizations, further embedding the dominance of technology companies.

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