Evidence care – data collection, internal investigation

Employers who fear they are being fleeced by a corrupt insider, perhaps colluding with an external hacker, even as they seek to investigate must ensure they don’t fall foul of data and privacy protection laws and regulations: breaches can undermine a criminal or civil case and make it harder to dismiss the offender. To complicate the picture further, legal protections vary widely around the world, as Sara Lewis, Julian Ryall, Paul Cochrane, Jens Kastner and Keith Nuthall discover.