There's an entire e-discovery "market"(updside down question mark) for software and services that are frequently quoted as running into six-figure territory at even the mention of the word "lawsuit" (actual quote).
A legal hold is nothing more than the inability to delete when you think you might get sued and culling and deduplication, if anticipated, can always be made easier by better business practices on the front-end instead of incurring costs on the backend.
Of course, as you mentioned there are ZERO companies that would want to be better in this regard. They want to be able to tell a court that it's a pain in the ass to institute these practices and the courts and legislatures have seemingly accepted this proposition either because they are themselves complicit or because they literally hear the word "technology" and piss their pants and cry for their secretary.
tl;dr, the best business from a risk management perspective is an IT nightmare
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There's an entire e-discovery "market"(updside down question mark) for software and services that are frequently quoted as running into six-figure territory at even the mention of the word "lawsuit" (actual quote).
A legal hold is nothing more than the inability to delete when you think you might get sued and culling and deduplication, if anticipated, can always be made easier by better business practices on the front-end instead of incurring costs on the backend.
Of course, as you mentioned there are ZERO companies that would want to be better in this regard. They want to be able to tell a court that it's a pain in the ass to institute these practices and the courts and legislatures have seemingly accepted this proposition either because they are themselves complicit or because they literally hear the word "technology" and piss their pants and cry for their secretary.
tl;dr, the best business from a risk management perspective is an IT nightmare