[LEGAL] - Proof of the need to separate business and personal comms

[netixone]

Judgement went through the High Court in England, today, in which individuals (in the referenced case) are being made, by law, to hand over their own "personal devices" for inspection and data dump.

This shows the importance of not using personal phones/laptops for business comms.

For anyone interested:
Summary judgement: Court of Appeal orders defendants to request their employees and ex-employees to produce personal devices for inspection to identify documents in defendants’ control
Full judgement: Phones 4U Ltd v EE Ltd & Ors [2021] EWCA Civ 116 (02 February 2021)

Of note:

we conclude that (a) the judge had jurisdiction to order the defendants to request third-party Custodians voluntarily to produce personal devices and emails stored on them

 

[CaptK]

WTF!!!!!!