Warning: Online Writings Live Forever

Item: Software helps lawyers mine data users thought they’d deleted /Tom Sowa, SR

More Info: Lawyers routinely make court-approved searches of smartphones, computers and iPads, and, in the past two years, have broadened their investigations to social media sites like Facebook and Twitter. In a society saturated with electronic communications, all those digital traces and records have made being a lawyer much easier, said Michael Church, a Spokane employment-law attorney. “People don’t realize this stuff lives forever,” Church said. Even when people delete information, those messages, photos and browsing records on computers or phones can be easily retrieved, he said.

Question: Are you careful re: what you write and send online?