As we move towards the third decade of the 21st century, we find ourselves more rooted in the ever-changing landscape of digital information: be it the plethora of social media platforms and other web components of our ‘internet of things’ reality. Nevertheless, social media evidence has become a vital feature in modern litigation cases.

“Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth, a forgetting of the breath.”

It may seem an odd thing to say but the records retrieval business is in reality a people's business. As the field gets ever more interconnected with concerns around data security and privacy, and the multifaceted complexity of a globalized world, it’s easy to forget that behind all that data is a person.

Law firms have grappled for quite some time with the Gordian Knot that is the intersection of data protection laws and disclosure in all its forms. As the data privacy laws become more nuanced, and data breach becomes distressingly more commonplace, the advent of the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) has added another challenging layer to the intersection between data protection and disclosure. Although the GDPR was approved by the EU Parliament, its effects extend beyond the EEA (European Economic Area).