Whatcha Gonna Do When the Government Comes for Your Employees’ Smartphones?

Presented by Avi Gesser, Davis Polk Litigation Partner Leor Landa, Davis Polk Corporate Partner Greg Andres, Davis Polk Litigation Partner Michael McGowan, Stroz Friedberg Managing Director, Digital Forensics

April 2, 2014

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Topics

1. Recent Examples of Requests for Smartphones

2. Why Government Wants Smartphones

3. Things to Consider When Government Asks for Smartphones a. Can Government Subpoena Smartphones? b. Who Owns the Phone, Company or Employee? c. Privilege d. Privacy

4. Options for Responding to Government Requests for Smartphones

Why Government Wants Smartphones?

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Smartphones contain unique data Text messages

Chat history

Voicemail

Notes or additional files

Contacts

Advances in commercial software allow for powerful analysis of smartphone data Contact frequency

Text Deletions

Call log history GPS data Social media Personal e-mail Photos

Detailed timelines Location information over time

Types of Data Available on Smartphones

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Recovering Deleted Data on Smartphones

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Geolocation Data on Smartphones

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Timeline and Link Analysis of Smartphone Data

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Things to Consider When Government Asks for Smartphones

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Challenge the government’s ability to subpoena the phone?

Who owns the phone (company or employee)?

What is on the phone (work, personal, privileged data)?

Relevant company policies?

Are those policies enforced?

The Dilemma

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Whatcha gonna do?

So, Whatcha Gonna Do When They Come for Your Employees’ Smartphones?

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Three Options:

Say “Yes”: Provide the phone, but take steps to protect privacy/privileges.

Say “No”: Do not provide the phone, but agree to provide extracted info.

Provide phone to neutral custodian to conduct analysis for government.

Questions?

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Avi Gesser, Davis Polk Litigation Partner avi.gesser@davispolk.com

Leor Landa, Davis Polk Corporate Partner leor.landa@davispolk.com

Greg Andres, Davis Polk Litigation Partner greg.andres@davispolk.com

Michael McGowan, Stroz Friedberg Managing Director, Digital Forensics mmcgowan@strozfriedberg.com