Social Media Collections Guide: Facebook
Last Updated May 2024
When faced with the task of "getting everything" from a party's Facebook profile, where do you even start?
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Last Updated May 2024
When faced with the task of "getting everything" from a party's Facebook profile, where do you even start?
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Last Updated March 2024
Per the Electronic Privacy Information Center, anonymity is a vital democratic concept, enabling individuals to participate in politics, disseminate ideas, express views, and practice spiritual beliefs without fearing public retaliation or government intervention. Maintaining anonymity online can be difficult, as the collection of identifying information is a common practice in social media and other digital industries, and the uses of that data, including redistribution to third parties, are often unclear. Digital surveillance can endanger the ability of a person to express themselves without someone knowing who they are and put them at risk of retaliation; on the other hand, one notable drawback of social media anonymity is the lack of accountability when freedom of expression is abused.
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Last Updated March 2024
The widespread use of technology has introduced new challenges and opportunities for the authentication of evidence, especially concerning electronically stored information (ESI). Federal Rules of Evidence (FRE) 901 and 902 are the guidelines for establishing the authenticity of ESI in legal proceedings. Learn about the intricacies of FRE 901 and FRE 902, along with their application in validating the credibility of ESI.
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Last Updated March 2024
Someone asks you to “get everything” from a party’s social media presence. Where do you even begin?
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Navigating through the intricacies of social media for legal purposes can be a daunting task, especially when it comes to collecting and presenting information from Facebook profiles. Anyone who has attempted to print an entire Facebook profile will attest to the challenges it presents. This blog post will explore how Page Vault Browser™ transforms this cumbersome process into a streamlined and efficient task, ensuring that you capture, save, and print Facebook profiles with ease for legal use.
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Last Updated March 2024
In today’s social media age, Facebook and other social media platforms are quickly becoming invaluable repositories of discoverable data for attorneys. Subpoenaing Facebook to retrieve this data in a civil case, however, is not an easy task, mainly because Facebook and other social media companies rely on the Stored Communications Act (SCA) to quash civil subpoenas for account data. Facebook is particularly explicit on this issue, stating on its website that it will not honor civil subpoena requests on SCA grounds.
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