![]() ![]() “Any electronic records that are relevant to a particular claim are discoverable in civil cases in the United States,” said Dori Hanswirth, the head of the media litigation practice at Hogan Lovells. “There is no more deniability about these casual social interactions.” So now is a good time to remind office workers: Slack like everyone is watching. “Much more our normal workplace interactions have moved to digital environments and therefore become permanent in ways that water cooler chat never was,” said Eric Goldman, a professor of technology law at Santa Clara University School of Law. But it’s also the nature of chat, its informality and speed, that make gossiping and joking easy. Slack has features that encourage levity, including a GIF generator and a custom emoji creator. Workplace chat is often called a “digital water cooler” because it’s where co-workers have informal, non-work-related conversations at the office. (Gawker has since switched over to Slack from Campfire.) HipChat says billions of messages have been sent using its service. Slack says it has 2 million daily active users Campfire has 100,000. Since those 2012 transcripts, group chat has only become more prevalent in offices, as Campfire and similar services, such as Slack and HipChat, gain popularity. Included in evidence are at least 32 pages of Campfire chats, which begin with “we’re about to post the Hulk Hogan sex tape” followed by a series of jokes, including one about a “tender leg drop,” Hogan’s penis “wearing a little do-rag,” and a discussion about the colour and consistency of Hogan’s “pubes,”-and that’s just two pages in. Gawker is being sued for $100 million by Terry Gene Bollea, the wrestler also known as Hulk Hogan, for posting a sex tape of the performer. “I would characterise it as workplace humour,” he said, in a taped deposition that was played in front of a jury and live-streamed to anyone who wanted to watch. On Tuesday, John Cook, executive editor of media company Gawker, had to explain, in open court, penis jokes he and his staff made in work group chat platform Campfire in 2012. We, the modern, group-chatting professional class, saw our personal nightmares play out in a courtroom this week. ![]()
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