Facebook New Messages & Digital Evidence: Looking on the Bright Side
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.
Cernam Seminar: Facebook’s New Messages & Digital Evidence
Special seminar in Dublin on Facebook’s upgraded messages system
Facebook is one of the most popular electronic messaging systems in the world, with close to 700 million users exchanging over 4 billion messages each day. In December of last year Facebook announced an upgrade to Messages and this improved feature is now being made available to users outside of the US.
New Messages fundamentally changes the nature of Facebook Messages and the associated risks. Did you know for example that Facebook users can now exchange Office documents and other attachments via New Messages? Or that switching to New Messages provides a Facebook.com email address which can be used to send and receive emails outside of Facebook? Read more
Breaking the Bad News: Facebook’s New Messages & E-Discovery
This is the third in our series of posts on Facebook’s updated messages system. In our two previous articles we introduced New Messages and discussed the main changes which it introduces. In this post we will look at the emails generated by New Messages and the difficulties which will arise in relation to electronic discovery.
A radically different view of email
Facebook users who are switched to the new Messages system will receive a Facebook.com email address based on their choice of Facebook username, for example a username of MarkZ would give an email address of MarkZ@Facebook.com. New Messages will generate email messages when a user communicates with another Facebook user who is offline and when an email address is entered as the recipient of a Facebook message. Facebook users can also receive external emails via their Facebook.com email address, with emails being delivered to the Facebook messages inbox. Read more
New Facebook Messages: Top 5 things you need to know
In our last post we introduced Facebook’s new Messages system and outlined some of the changes. This recent upgrade fundamentally changes the nature of Facebook Messages and therefore breaks many widely-held assumptions about the limitations of Facebook as a messaging platform. In this post we will therefore highlight 5 of the most important features for anyone interested in Facebook Messages as evidence, for example in litigation or employment matters.
