Monthly Archives: March 2017

Storage

It’s Like Leaving the File on a “Bench in the Public Square”: Unsecured Storage Results in Waiver of Attorney-Client Privilege

Recently, a Virginia federal magistrate judge held that a party waived its attorney-client privilege when it posted unsecured, confidential information to a file-sharing website. Citing public policy reasons, the court ruled that uploading a file that was not password protected and available to anyone on the Internet to view is akin to leaving the file on a “bench in the public square.” storage
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