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Feds Have Always Claimed Technology Let Terrorists Hide
I needed to go back to fix something way back from the early, early days of this blog, and I saw a headline that blew me away. Lately, there has been much discussion about how the FBI, and others, claim that encryption will only be a boon to terrorists and is an imminent danger to…
Linked – IBM’s machine argues, pretty convincingly, with humans
Lawyers, take note – “While the humans had better delivery, the group agreed, the machine offered greater substance in its arguments. That, IBM said, spoke to the heart of its goal: augmenting human beings to make decisions quickly and with more data than ever before.” In front of a jury, the human lawyer has the…
Shared Links (weekly) May 14, 2023
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A New Low For Hackers – Threatening to Disclose Patient Medical, Mental Health Records as Ransom for Payment– Makes sense. If the organization won’t pay the ransom maybe the patients have more incentive to do so. I expect this to start targeting gender-affirming and women’s health in the US soon, right?
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The decline of time-based law firms– “Lawyers’ billed hours constitute the inventory of law firms and the foundation of their profits. Legally trained AI will decimate those hours. What happens then?”
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Lonely at the Top: How to Help New People Managers Step Into Leadership
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Companies Are Hoarding Personal Data About You. Here’s How to Get Them to Delete It.
The 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 acknowledged that the tech industry was upset, explaining that Labor had passed the bill because national security agencies had said it was urgent. He…
Cloud Solutions and Inherent Risk
This week provided yet another reminder of the dangers inherent with “cloud” solutions. When you depend on a web service and their domain get’s highjacked, suddenly your data is unreachable for you. People, and entire industries (ahem, law firms), that are conservative in nature and risk-averse look at web-based platforms and start to think about…
