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In a civil action for breach of a cloud-based software deployment contract, the plaintiff seeks to admit into evidence a series of ephemeral electronic communications—Telegram chat messages between the defendant's project lead and the plaintiff's account manager—captured via Telegram's export feature and printed as a PDF. The messages discuss acceptance criteria, scope adjustments, and payment milestones. The defendant objects, claiming ephemeral communications are unreliable, cannot be authenticated, and that the printout is not the original record. Under A.M. No. 01-7-01-SC, Rule 11, Sec. 2, answer: (a) whether ephemeral electronic communications may be admitted as documentary evidence and the controlling standard for admissibility; (b) what authentication steps are required to admit the chat messages, including who should testify and what showing is needed to establish authenticity; (c) if the original chat data on the Telegram platform is not available, what form of secondary evidence is permissible and under what conditions.

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Yes; even if messages are encrypted, they may be admitted provided a witness testifies that the messages were decrypted and that the decryption process did not alter the content; authentication should include the decryption method and the identity of the sender. Yes; ephemeral electronic communications may be admitted as documentary evidence if properly authenticated under Rule 11, Sec. 2; the proponent must show that the messages are what they purport to be and have not been altered; the best evidence rule requires the original data be produced if available, and if not, secondary evidence such as a certified export/printout accompanied by testimony from the sender, recipient, or custodian confirming authenticity and chain of custody, with the export including timestamps and metadata. Yes; but authentication must be performed by a cyber-forensics expert who validates the integrity of the platform export, confirms no tampering, and provides a cryptographic hash; in that case, the printout alone is insufficient. No; ephemeral electronic communications may not be admitted as documentary evidence under Rule 11, Sec. 2 because they are inherently unreliable and lack the original record.

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