Responding to recent news that a plaintiff’s attorney was suspended for advising his client to clean up his Facebook page after a discovery request, K Royal, CIPP/US, CIPP/E, writes the advice was “clearly wrong,”  but what if there was no discovery request? What are the ethics of having a client remove potentially incriminating social media posts during a lawsuit? Would that be the equivalent of “hiding the smoking gun?” In this Privacy Perspectives blog post, Royal explores these questions and where the line between what is public and private resides when dealing with civil and criminal actions.
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