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Despite some potential problems with widespread use of Gmail’s “Confidential Mode,” the new ephemeral messaging function can be easily managed from an information governance perspective. At first glance, the launch of Gmail’s new ephemeral messaging feature known as “Confidential Mode,” which is included in a batch of user interface updates to the service, may cause […]

The paradox behind any privacy directive is that analytics must be used to manage, identify, and collect personal data in enterprises data stores in order to meet requirements such as the General Data Protection Regulation. In a recent Osterman Research report, results show that most organizations have analytics-based initiatives in place, yet properly classifying and […]

The advancements of many legal technologies have rested on their ability to better understand the data they ingest and automatically categorize and classify it. Such is the basis for data analytics, but only recently has classification become so accurate and able to be leveraged for so many purposes, spurred by the advancements in artificial intelligence’s […]

Five women corporate legal professionals in the technology industry, including ZL Associate General Counsel Linda Sharp, share their thoughts on the gender gap, memorable career challenges and more. To read the full interview, please visit Legaltech News. The Trailblazers Advice Insight and Wisdom From Women Leaders in Corporate Legal Tech _ Legaltech News is available […]

Many global organizations face a daunting challenge in complying with the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield and the EU’s upcoming General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), given the two regulations’ directives on how citizens’ data is to be stored, processed and accessed. In an effort to make compliance easier, however, legal technology providers are innovating solutions that bring […]

There is no greater success story in legal tech than e-discovery. Yet, while the practice is now the norm, enforced through legislation and all but required for today’s monstrous review sets, the market for solutions has become saturated. It’s defined by a spate of mergers and acquisitions, buzzwords employed by vendors masquerading their solutions as […]

ZL Technologies announced an update to its ZL Unified Archive information governance and e-discovery platform that implements early data analytics and a more intuitive and visual interface. The update comes months after ZL Technologies announced for its platform the addition of an independent legal hold, parallel indexing for multiple cases, and batch processing for custodian […]

Linda Sharp, associate general counsel at enterprise information governance technology provider ZL Technologies, for example, questioned what “‘equivalent’ protections that would have been availed had the data been stored in the EU” meant in the context of the agreement. Another area she is concerned about is “ongoing communications between employees within an organization or across […]

Often espoused as a virtue of modern e-discovery is the ability to conduct keyword searches across data sets to save time, money and resources during the review process. However, in the FBI’s statement announcing the conclusion of the investigation into presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server during her time as Secretary […]

The e-discovery market has momentum on its side. A recent IDC report found that while the global e-discovery market hit $10 billion in 2015, it is on pace to reach $14.7 billion by 2019, spurred by strong growth in the Americas and Europe regions. But what this growth will look like, and what segment of […]

Linda Sharp, associate general counsel of ZL Technologies, believes that in the near term, the Brexit vote will not disrupt any data law changes, given that the U.K.’s “exit from the EU is going to take some time to ever materialize.” “From the time that the U.K. actually invokes the Article 50 provisions, there is […]

“The key to a good IG policy,” explains Farid Vij, lead information governance specialist at ZL Technologies, “Is having a complete understanding of your data at all times so that you can be in a proactive position during a data breach, which is the biggest challenge for enterprises today. There’s simply too much data.” “The […]