The Evolving Role of Emojis in eDiscovery
We are all familiar with emojis. They are present in emails, text messages, social media, webpages, and virtually every online modality. According to emojipedia.com, over one in five tweets now includes an emoji (21.54%) and five billion emojis are sent daily on Facebook Messenger. The sheer number, variations, and sources of emojis is overwhelming. There are several key questions we must consider from an investigative point of view:
1) Do emojis provide any probative value during eDiscovery?
2) Can we translate these quirky images into meaningful text equivalents?
3) Can they be used to communicate covert information in plain sight?
4) Can we determine hostile, threatening, hateful, or discriminatory meaning containing evidentiary value from emojis?
5) Is it possible to track, correlate, connect suspects or accomplices through their use of emojis?
During this session and demonstration, we will dive deeper into each of these areas, discuss and demonstrate tools and technologies that can unlock the meaning, intent, and potential digital evidence to enhance eDiscovery, forensic and incident response. We will also review some noteworthy legal cases affecting the industry.
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About the Speakers
Julie Lewis, President, CEO and Founder of Digital Mountain, has over 30 years of experience working in the high technology industry and has been a long-time user of social media. One of the key focus areas of her company is on social media investigations, preservations and monitoring. Prior to founding Digital Mountain, Julie worked at VERITAS Software with next-generation storage, security and search companies. At VERITAS, she managed operations for new product releases across sales, marketing, product management, legal, engineering and customer support. Before joining VERITAS, Julie worked in the venture capital and investment banking industries in both the Silicon Valley and Boston areas focusing on the Internet Infrastructure, security and software sectors. In addition, Julie worked for two of the Big 4 accounting firms doing financial and IT auditing, as well as M&A due diligence as a CPA. She also worked for Applied Magnetics, a publicly traded provider of disk and tape drive components. Julie earned an MBA under fellowship from the F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business at Babson College and a BA in both Business Economics and Sociology from the University of California at Santa Barbara. She is a member of the American Bar Association, High-Tech Crime Investigation Association (HTCIA), ISSA, Sedona Conference, and has received her EnCE (Encase Certification in Computer Forensics). Julie is founding Director of the Silicon Valley Chapter of Women in eDiscovery and co-author of “The Sedona Conference Primer on Social Media”.
Chet Hosmer serves as an Assistant Professor of Practice at the University of Arizona in the Cyber Operations program where he is teaching and researching the application of Python and Machine Learning to advanced cybersecurity challenges. Chet is also the founder of Python Forensics, Inc. a non-profit organization focused on the collaborative development of open-source investigative technologies using Python and other popular scripting languages.
Chet has made numerous appearances to discuss emerging cyber threats including NPR, ABC News, Forbes, IEEE, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Government Computer News, Salon.com and Wired Magazine. He has 7 published books with Elsevier and Apress that focus on data hiding, passive network defense strategies, Python Forensics, PowerShell, and IoT.
