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Facebook New Messages & Digital Evidence: Looking on the Bright Side
Posted under Business Records Online, FBNM, Online Evidence, Online Investigations by Owen O'Connor on Friday, June 17th 2011
For the fourth instalment in our series analysing Facebook’s new messaging system we want to look at some of the positive points of “New Messages” as digital evidence. For the background to this post you might like to read our introduction to New Messages; a summary of the main changes in the new system; and our notes on some of the digital evidence downsides.
Although we have mainly discussed negative aspects of Facebook Messages, for example the risks introduced by the Facebook.com webmail system, there are aspects of New Messages which will be very helpful in using Facebook Messages as evidence.
