Electronic Discovery and Evidence

IM and Employee Monitoring

Mind those IMs--your cubicle's walls have eyes.  "Big Brother is watching you at work, and making a pretty penny doing it.  As more and more companies install monitoring software to track employee activities--threatening to turn cubicles into no-privacy zones--businesses that offer workplace surveillance tools are enjoying a boomlet. Security cameras and phone monitoring have long given bosses a view into workers' daily habits. But now employers are going further than ever, thanks to technology that can capture e-mail and instant messaging conversations, or record a worker's every keystroke. . . "

Car Black Boxes and OnStar

"Under the Hood, with Big Brother Forget Orwell’s 1984—20 Years Later It’s Our Cars That Are Giving Us Up.  Someday it’ll happen, probably when you least expect it. Just as you countersteer while drifting out of a tight corner, or after you punch the brakes hard, you’ll hear the mechanically animated female voice emanating from your car’s audio system: “Collision detected. Calling OnStar.”