New Rules Make Firms Track E-Mails, Instant Messages for Federal Trials. I just caught up to this story and it has distinct repercussions for most businesses.
According to legal experts, the rules, approved by the Supreme Court in April, require American companies and other entities involved in federal litigation to produce “electronically stored information” as part of the discovery process, when evidence is shared by both sides before a trial.The change makes it more important for companies to know what electronic information they have and where.
Most companies do have this type of monitoring in place today, but ones that don’t will have to make some fast changes. This law went into effect yesterday.