A New Jersey District Court has sanctioned a personal injury plaintiff for spoliation following the plaintiff’s deletion of his Facebook account which defendants were trying to access. The defendant’s discovery requests asked for documents or records of “wall posts, comments, status updates or personal information posted or made by plaintiff on Facebook and/or any social … Continue Reading
A U.S. District Court in Indiana has ruled that a company’s use of keylogger software to access an employee’s personal e-mail account may have violated the Stored Communications Act (“SCA”). Keylogging or keystroke logging is the tracking of the keys struck on a keyboard, typically in a covert manner. In Rene v. G.F. Fishers, Inc.,the … Continue Reading
