Businesses warned on Twitter e-discovery risk

Big business is being warned of 'the potential threat' of not being able to satisfy discovery requirements because they have so many Twitter, Facebook and other social media accounts.

Luxury companies are not rushing to tweet lculig

The typical large organisation has at least ten Facebook accounts and some have over 200, according to Forrester Research. About nine out of ten such organisations also run Twitter accounts. ‘Organizations need to take seriously the potential threat of their archiving systems not satisfying their e-discovery or regulatory requirements,’ said Michael Osterman of Osterman Research. However, he says, only six per cent of big businesses archive their social content. Source: ABA News

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