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Mobile Collection: It’s Not Just for iPhones Anymore

Editor’s Note: Tom O’Connor is a nationally known consultant, speaker, and writer in the field of computerized litigation support systems.  He has also been a great addition to our webinar program, participating with me on several recent webinars.  Tom has also written several terrific informational overview series for CloudNine, including his most recent one, DOS and DON’TS of a 30(b)(6) Witness Deposition.  Now, Tom has written another terrific overview regarding mobile device collection titled Mobile Collection: It’s Not Just for iPhones Anymore that we’re happy to share on the eDiscovery Daily blog.  Enjoy! – Doug

Tom’s overview is split into four parts, so we’ll cover each part separately.  Here’s the first part.

Introduction

Most of the talk about retrieving data from mobile devices has centered on iPhones and other Apple devices.  And no small reason for that is that most of the discussion on the topic has come from Craig Ball, who is, like many attorneys, an Apple guy.

But, iPhones are not the only mobile devices for which data collection is necessary.  In fact, they’re not even the most popular devices – by far.  Android market share is now bigger than Apple everywhere in the world. Although Apple iOS holds a large share of the smartphone operating systems’ market within the United States, Google Android remains the market leader with a 51.8% share as of September 2019.  Worldwide, Android has a 76% market share with iOS far behind at 22% (Source, IDC Nov 2019)

So, you’re just as likely – even more likely – to need to collect data from Android devices than from Apple devices, especially outside the US.

With that in mind, in this paper, we will take a look at mobile device collection topics, including:

  1. Mobile Collection and Preservation, Courtesy of Craig Ball
  2. Google Vault and the Emphasis of Android Devices
  3. Conclusions

We’ll publish Part 2 – Mobile Collection and Preservation, Courtesy of Craig Ball – next Monday.

So, what do you think?  Are you having to increasingly address issues associated with mobile device discovery?  As always, please share any comments you might have or if you’d like to know more about a particular topic.

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