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Written and curated by industry specialist Doug Austin, eDiscovery Today serves as the essential daily resource for professionals in eDiscovery and eDisclosure. It provides valuable insights on the latest trends, best practices, and legal cases related to electronic discovery, cybersecurity, and data privacy.

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What Are They and How Can They Lead to Data Breaches?

1 week ago | ediscoverytoday.com | Doug Austin

What are prompt leaks? How can your AI workflows cause them? And how can they lead to data breaches? This article discusses them. This article in Help Net Security (The quiet data breach hiding in AI workflows, written by Mirko Zorz and available here) discusses that, as AI becomes embedded in daily business workflows, the risk of data exposure increases, leading to prompt leaks, which are not rare exceptions. They are a natural outcome of how employees use large language models.
Optimizing the Left Side of EDRM at CLOC

1 week ago | ediscoverytoday.com | Doug Austin

The CLOC Global Institute conference is just three weeks away! Here’s a session involving optimizing the left side of the EDRM Model!The annual conference conducted by the Corporate Legal Operations Consortium (CLOC) is the CLOC Global Institute. This year, it’s being conducted at the Aria in Las Vegas from Monday, May 5th to Thursday, May 8th. On Tuesday, May 6th at 8am PT, Cloudficient will be conducting a breakfast roundtable titled: Foundational eDiscovery: Optimizing the Left Side of EDRM.
How ChatGPT Describes Me

2 weeks ago | ediscoverytoday.com | Doug Austin

Last week, OpenAI announced an expansion of ChatGPT’s customization and memory capabilities. So, I decided to see how ChatGPT describes me. I covered this in last week’s Kitchen Sink and promised I would have more to say about it. For some users, ChatGPT will now be able to remember information from the full breadth of their prior conversations with it and adjust its responses based on that information.
The Kitchen Sink for April 11, 2025

2 weeks ago | ediscoverytoday.com | Doug Austin

Here’s the kitchen sink for April 11, 2025 of ten stories that I didn’t get to this week – with another brand-new meme from Gates Dogfish!Why “the kitchen sink”? Find out here! 🙂The Kitchen Sink is even better when you can include a brand-new eDiscovery meme courtesy of Gates Dogfish, the meme channel dedicated to eDiscovery people and created by Aaron Patton.
Two Data Breaches for Oracle Reported in a Matter of Weeks

2 weeks ago | ediscoverytoday.com | Doug Austin

Oracle has reportedly experienced not one, but two data breaches in a matter of weeks, which they’ve apparently downplayed and/or failed to disclose. In the first one, reported by BleepingComputer here, a breach at Oracle Health impacted multiple US healthcare organizations and hospitals after a threat actor stole patient data from legacy servers.
Failing to Participate in Good Faith Leads to Show Cause Order for Attorney

2 weeks ago | ediscoverytoday.com | Doug Austin

In Wilbert v. Pyramid Healthcare, Inc., No. 24-331 (W.D. Pa. Mar. 20, 2025), Pennsylvania District Judge W. Scott Hardy denied plaintiff’s motion to compel, finding several deficiencies in the motion made by plaintiff’s attorney Joshua P. Ward, including overly broad custodians, search terms and temporal scope.
Forensic Collection from a Smartphone Using GenAI for Analysis

2 weeks ago | ediscoverytoday.com | Doug Austin

Tomorrow’s webinar from Lexbe will discuss the anatomy of a forensic collection from a smartphone and how to use GenAI for analysis!Tomorrow, Lexbe will host the encore webinar titled (wait for it!) Anatomy of a Forensic Collection from a Smartphone and How to Use GenAI to Analyze the Evidence (available here) at 2pm ET (1pm CT, 11am PT). Join Lexbe for an informative session on forensic collection from smartphones and analysis of the evidence using generative AI.
Essential Skill Sets for Corporate Legal Department Teams

2 weeks ago | ediscoverytoday.com | Doug Austin

One session that stood out for me at Legalweek this year was one that discussed essential skill sets for corporate legal department teams. The session, hosted by ProSearch, was titled Future-Ready: The Ten Essential Skill Sets for Corporate Legal Department Teams.
Casepoint Platform Achieves FedRAMP® High Security Authorization and Adds DOD IL4 Designation

2 weeks ago | ediscoverytoday.com | Doug Austin

The Casepoint platform achieves FedRAMP® High Security Authorization and adds a DOD IL4 designation! A portion of the press release is below, here’s a link to the full release! Casepoint Platform Achieves FedRAMP® High Security Authorization and Adds DOD IL4 Designation Casepoint becomes the first and only data discovery platform to achieve FedRAMP High and has also earned DOD IL4, reinforcing its commitment to top security standards alongside its existing FedRAMP Moderate and DOD IL5 and IL6...
ROT Should Be Redefined, Says Brendan Sullivan

2 weeks ago | ediscoverytoday.com | Doug Austin

Many of us are familiar with the term “ROT”, but Brendan Sullivan of S2|DATA says the “R” in ROT should be redefined!As Brendan reminds us in his blog post here, within the realm of Information Governance, the term ROT data is generally accepted as an acronym for “Redundant Obsolete & Trivial” data. Records managers would seek to remediate such ROT data, presumably as a cost saving in storage or the management of such data.