Your forensics team of professionals has been asked to provide the forensic plan and e-evidence acquisition strategy so European Union (EU) legal representatives can approve it as part of a pre-trial discovery process investigating an international corporate intellectual property case. The civil case revolves around a chemical design cleared for use in the U.S. for insect control in agriculture, is now being mass-produced and used by a E.U. member state being A preliminary investigation by corporate investigators find a former employee may have left and carried the design to a E.U. competitor. Without this e-evidence acquisition strategy, EU legal representatives will not be capable of imaging the suspect drive, analyze the data/email collected, or transporting the evidence to the United States.

In the Small Group area, your team professionals should discuss the following 2 topics. All members of the group should have input to answer these questions in preparation for drafting.

• What are the legal procedures for forensic collection,      preservation, and transport to ensure that the EU legal representatives      will approve the forensics plan?
• Provide an outline of a plan that takes into account      adherence to the EU directive and the use of e-discovery technology to      capture email and attachments without violating privacy laws.

After interacting with the team to discuss the legal procedures and the outline of the plan you should provide a 5-6-page Word document with following structure and content:

Group member #1:

• An introduction to the contents of the report
• A forensic plan and e-evidence acquisition strategy      that can be approved by EU legal representative

Group member #2:

• Detailed evidence collection, preservation, and      transport procedures to ensure that the EU legal representatives will      approve the forensics plan

Group member #3 and #4:

• An outline of a plan that takes into account adherence      to the EU directive and the use of e-discovery technology to capture      forensic IP data without violating privacy laws
• A conclusion summarizing the key points of the report
• A reference list in APA format

Consider the changes that occur in U.S. and foreign governments as it relates to privacy and data.
Sources should be properly cited in APA format. 5-6 pages