Henry Van Dyck Discusses DOJ Policy, Obtaining Employee Messages With Bloomberg Law

In “DOJ Crackdown Prompts Compliance Scramble on WhatsApp, Signal,” Bloomberg Law spoke to white collar defense and investigations partner Henry Van Dyck, who is also a former federal prosecutor, about a Department of Justice policy that directed prosecutors to levy steeper penalties against firms under investigation that are unable to preserve workers’ business-related messages.

“There are concerns over how to strike the right balance between employees having a sense of personal privacy at work and not feeling like their employer is Big Brother versus a company’s interest in complying with the new guidance,” said Van Dyck. “That’s a difficult balance to strike for many companies.”