Law360, New York ( March 14, 2013, 11:25 AM EDT) -- As technology advances, it at times outpaces both courts and attorneys. Last year, global digital data increased nearly 50 percent, Twitter added 1 million followers per month, and an entirely cloud-based photo-sharing service was valued at $1 billion. Since then Facebook announced a search engine that might harness the consumer data the site has been collecting on an unprecedented scale, and the European Commission launched a new cybersecurity strategy just months after making cloud computing recommendations. But the case law has not always kept up with the Joneses. E-discovery decisions have shed some light on issues; at the same time, they raise new questions and inconsistencies that hopefully will be clarified in the near future. A few highlights are addressed below....
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