Privacy-First Mobile Collections: A Legalweek Q&A with Pinpoint Labs CTO Jamie Beasley

As featured in our Live from Legalweek webinar, we caught up with Jamie Beasley, CTO of Pinpoint Labs, to hear about the latest innovations the company is bringing to the forefront of ediscovery. Known for their trusted data collection tools like Harvester, Pinpoint is now stepping into the mobile arena with a focus on privacy-first solutions. Here’s what Jamie had to say during our Legalweek 2025 session.

AT A GLANCE

• Mobile Collections Take Center Stage: Brett Burney catches up with Jamie Beasley, CTO of Pinpoint Labs, about the company’s new privacy-first mobile phone collection tools – and how they’re reshaping the way legal teams approach custodian data.
• Privacy & Control: Pinpoint Lab’s latest tools emphasize local data collection and admin-level filters, giving legal teams greater control while staying compliant with GDPR and other privacy regulations.
• Listening to the Market: Jamie shares how direct feedback from customers drove the shift into mobile, and why Legalweek is the perfect place to connect with users and build better solutions.

About the Speakers

Jamie Beasley

James "Jamie" Beasley has spent the last 18 years as the Chief Technology Officer at Pinpoint Labs, where he heads up the engineering team responsible for delivering first rate forensic and eDiscovery collection products. Jamie is an expert in the domains of data collection, file systems, computer forensics, and software engineering. Before joining Pinpoint Labs in 2006, Jamie engineered the web-based automation of manual customer contact systems at Image Capture Engineering. As an avid technologist, Jamie continues to innovate, secure, advocate and investigate, supporting the needs of the Computer Forensics and eDiscovery industries.

Brett Burney

Brett is Nextpoint Law Group's VP of eDiscovery Consulting and a widely recognized authority on the complex ediscovery issues litigators currently face. In addition to consulting with corporations and law firms on their data management and legal technology issues, Brett is a journalist, podcaster, speaker, and author. Before founding his ediscovery consulting practice, Brett supported lawyers at an AmLaw 200 firm, where he worked with litigation teams in building electronic document databases, counseling on ediscovery issues, and managing the technical responsibilities of presenting evidence at trial.

Brett:

I am now with Jamie Beasley, who is the CTO at Pinpoint Labs. I’ve been following Pinpoint for a long time, Jamie, and I know you guys always have some good announcements at Legalweek. What are some of the things you’re talking about with customers this week?

Jamie:

Well, this week we’re talking about our new mobile phone collection stuff. We just added admin-level filters for mobile phone collection so you don’t have to have the custodian do everything for you. It keeps everything local for privacy reasons. You want to be able to tell them that we’re not transmitting any of your stuff that you don’t know about, so we’re not backing up your phone to the cloud first. We’re keeping everything local so that everything’s under control. So, you’re in compliance with all the GDPR, privacy regulations, things like that, and the custodians are in control of their data. I think those are the big differentiators we’re talking about today.

Brett:

You guys have Harvester, you’ve always had some great data collection tools, but most of that’s been for computers or personal computers. Has the mobile angle been a response to requests from customers? Almost every discovery matter today is involving some kind of mobile data. You guys knew that that was coming, so you are making sure there are tools available for that, correct?

Jamie:

Absolutely. We had one person after another asking us if we could collect for mobile, and we couldn’t really. So we made a way to do it, right? The market is big, and it’s getting bigger everyday, and there’s plenty of room for all these new entrants. We all do things a little bit differently, and we all get our advantages, right? And when you need privacy advantages, come to us. If you need, say, a forensic image, go to the other guys. [laughter]

Brett:

Gotcha. That’s a good way to put it. Very interesting. There’s always a need for different aspects. I know you’ve probably been in lots of meetings today. Legalweek is always a little bit of a crazy thing. Anything specific that you’re excited about that the team from Pinpoint has been looking forward to this week?

Jamie:

We’re just looking forward to getting to see everybody, getting to meet everybody, and see what people really need and make sure that we’re solving the right problems. We want to create the most value that we can for everybody out there. That’s what I’ve enjoyed the most at Legalweek, so far, is just getting to know everybody and getting to see what kind of problems you guys are running into and what we can do to help you solve them.

Brett:

Well said. So, any more information people want? It’s at PinpointLabs.com. Jamie, thanks for your time today.

Jamie:

Thank you.

This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity.

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