Civil Litigation
Dec. 8, 2012
eDiscovery: sex, lies and social media
Imagine how much exposure the average citizen faces when the CIA director was snared in the FBI's spider web.
A. Marco Turk
Emeritus Professor, CSU Dominguez Hills
Email: amarcoturk.commentary@gmail.com
A. Marco Turk is a contributing writer, professor emeritus and former director of the Negotiation, Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding program at CSU Dominguez Hills, and currently adjunct professor of law, Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution, Pepperdine University Caruso School of Law.
Social media can come back to bite. On Nov. 2, Walter Pacheco wrote a column, "Social Media and Networks Give Rise to Internet Law Specialty," cautioning that Internet postings can suddenly reappear "as evidence in a lawsuit." The saga of now-retired general and ex-CIA director David Petraeas, embellished by his biographer-mistress Paula Broadwell and her nemesis, Jill Kelley, also snagging General John Allen, the on-hold next head of the U.S. European Command, has become a prophe...
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