Brian Michael spoke to Bloomberg Law about the Justice Department (DOJ) stepping up the pressure in white collar investigations to produce encrypted chats on apps like Signal and WhatsApp, with the push enforcement following a wave of civil settlements on Wall Street over bankers’ inaccessible messages.
According to Brian, people in his prior role as a chief compliance officer were already getting C-suite resistance about what’s feasible before the DOJ formalized its policy. But in-house and compliance lawyers now have a “compelling data point” to share with executive leadership “that the Justice Department means business.”
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