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Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is set to take effect in less than 200 days. It is important to understand the changes this new set of regulations will impose, but it is also important to understand that even if you don’t have a physical business presence in Europe, the GDPR may apply to you. Any organization that retains personal information of any EU individuals must act to comply with the GDPR.

It’s December 1st, which can only mean one thing – it’s E-Discovery Day 2017! This (now third) annual event includes a combination of webcasts and in-person events to promote discussion and education of eDiscovery. Here are some of the webcasts to consider checking out today.

Hackers stole the personal data of 57 million customers and drivers from Uber last year. Their response? Conceal the breach for more than a year, and pay the hackers $100,000 to delete the data (sure they did) and keep quiet about the breach.

Having recently experienced this with a client, I thought I would revisit this helpful tip. This is one of the tips Tom O’Connor and I will be covering this Friday – E-Discovery Day – on our webcast Murphy’s eDiscovery Law: How to Keep What Could Go Wrong From Going Wrong at noon CST (1:00pm EST, 10:00am PST). If you process Outlook PST files, make sure you’re doing this.

While we were preparing to eat turkey and stuff ourselves with various goodies last week, the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) provided an important guideline for compliance with the European Union General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

Three years ago, I wrote about what I’m thankful for this holiday season from an eDiscovery standpoint. I’m even more thankful and blessed now, so I thought I would do it again. Happy Thanksgiving!

For many of the webcasts that we’ve conducted at CloudNine this year, we’ve noted several big data fun facts that illustrate the challenges that many organizations face in managing increasing volumes of data. But several of those facts are three years old. So, we thought it would be fun to take a look at some more up to date facts about big data that you can share with your family at your annual Thanksgiving gathering!

One of the best things about speaking at The Master’s Conference is that you get to see other great sessions and presentations as well. During the Orlando event earlier this week, one of the sessions was presented by Ralph Losey, a regular thought leader interviewee on this blog, who discussed revisions and amendments to a notable Local Rule on Pretrial Procedure in Civil Actions. Those amendments include an excellent new 33 point eDiscovery checklist.