Linked – Facebook will reveal who uploaded your contact info for ad targeting
This should be interesting… “Starting February 28th, Facebook’s “Why am I seeing this?” button in the drop-down menu of feed posts will reveal more than the brand that paid for the ad, some...
View ArticleIllinois Court Ruling Could Be a Game Changer
David Horrigan writes about the case over on the Relativity blog, where collecting the thumbprint of a 14 year old without notifying the parent violated the states biometric information law (BIPA), and...
View ArticleLinked – China Facial Recognition Database Leak Sparks Fears Over Mass Data...
As much as I am very concerned about the invasion of privacy that comes along with ever-present government and commercial surveillance, the even bigger concern might just be what an inviting target all...
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Algorithms and Rabbit Holes in Social Media Here’s an Example of a Phishing Email I Received and What I Did About It Ride The Lightning: Is That a Camera in the Airplane Seat in Front of You? 5 Ways...
View ArticleLinked – How Your Office Affects Your Mental Health and Increases Stress
This makes sense, we spend a lot of time at work, and once we add in a commute, it’s probably closer to 50% or more: ““People who are employed full-time outside the home spend approximately 33 percent...
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why cool offices do nothing to mental health “Job-induced anxiety is on the rise as technology blurs the lines between work and home life. The idea of work-life balance has all but disappeared.”...
View ArticleLinked – Zuckerberg’s end-to-end encryption plan could put Facebook at odds...
Try not to get whiplash, but at the same time that many public officials in the US, and all over the world, are screaming about how much information the tech companies have about us, and the violation...
View ArticleThe Danger When Politicians Feel The Need to “Do Something” on Encryption
This time, from Australia, where their anti-encryption law was based, apparently, on a fear that a terrorist attack would occur, and the people blocking this bill would get blamed for it. Husic...
View ArticleLinked – UK government proposes sweeping new regulations of online content
Umm, what? “Of course, forcing technology content to proactively monitor its platforms for objectionable content could create problems of their own, leading to unnecessary removal of legitimate content...
View ArticleIs Google About the Change The Way We Browse the Web?
The rumor is that Google Chrome will soon be using DNS over HTTP in order to navigate the web. When it does, that may provide some level of privacy, and security, but it may break a whole lot in the...
View ArticleLinked: BYOD Challenges
I appreciate what EPIQ is trying to do with this post, and we really should all be much more wary of how much we use our personal phones to conduct business, because in the eDiscovery world, that may...
View ArticleJust How Much Does Your Smart Home Know?
Turns out, it’s quite a lot. We’ve all kind of known that Alexa is always listening, and recording, but do we realize how much? Quoting Sharon Nelson’s discussion of another report – Yes, Alexa Does...
View ArticleLinked: The Platform Challenge: Balancing Safety, Privacy and Freedom
Yes, this lecture from Alex Stamos is an hour long, but if you’re interested in the struggle we face when it comes to social media, misinformation, privacy and freedom, it’s worth your time. A couple...
View ArticleQuick Thought – The I Have Nothing To Hide Brigade
It never actually fails, every time there’s an article or mention of new surveillance tools being used by law enforcement or some other security group, complaints about the privacy violation are met...
View ArticleLinked: Makers of spyware deny marketing their apps to stalkers in...
I’m aware that these tools exist for monitoring kids, but yeah anyone can use them to monitor anyone: “In the report, titled The Predator in Your Pocket, researchers at The Citizen Lab at the...
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It’s time for cybersecurity to go pro bono Who says You Can’t Bates Number Native Productions? What Will the E-Discovery Team of the Future Look Like? Data privacy basics – what type of information is...
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10 Timely Tips For Trial Preparation A tale of two cities: Why ransomware will just get worse Recent Cases Spotlight the Challenges of Cross-Border Data Protection Laws in eDiscovery How to Implement...
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Nope. Sorry. Don’t believe you. – “AI is not the norm and I would be willing to bet a majority of lawyers can’t describe AI to their clients and can’t imagine their day WITH an AI.” – I would have to...
View ArticleLinked: Law Firm Data Security Vulnerabilities
These results from the 2018 ABA Legal Technology Survey are not at all good, given how much information is laying around law firms these days. “Less than half of the responding firms have the following...
View ArticleLinked: Facebook Denies That it Plans to Backdoor WhatsApp
If Sharon, and others, are right about this, on the other hand, they won’t have to: “There are many cybersecurity experts who believe it is only be a matter of time before device manufacturers and...
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