I recently purchased a new car, for the first time since 2002. One of the first things I noticed was how “connected” it is, to my phone, to trip data, to various apps, to it’s own internal information etc.
Naturally, as an eDiscovery professional, I immediately started wondering about how that data is handled, and potential uses for it. I think I’ll check out this guide to learn more about it. 😉
We’ve seen a lot of discussion about AI projects not showing significant ROI, and this may be because the results are not trustworthy, which raises the question of whether the data being modeled is reliable. If AI is surfacing incorrect information because the model was built on outdated and inaccurate data, the problem lies with the source of the data.Â
Imagine, if you will, your smart TV or home assistant listening in on conversations you’ve been having about layoffs in your industry, and that data is shared with a financial institution that then decides that you’re not a good credit risk. The AI took that conversation and combined it with a ton of financial information from other people who work in your industry and made that call. Is it accurate? Probably not, but when you start grabbing data from all over the place and building these huge algorithmic models, things can get a little messy. You become less of an individual and more of a conglomeration of all the people who do things like you, and when you add in a little spying, that can lead to all sorts of disastrous consequences.Â
Do we want governments and corporations to have that much power? No, but as Bruce rightly points out, we haven’t done much of anything to stop them from taking it so far.Â
I mentioned the fact that I was trying out the evaluation edition on GsyncIt a little while ago. Tonight, I made the final evaluation that I simply love using Google Calendar, and also having an easy option to sync it with my Outlook calendar. So, I sent in my $9.99, got my license key, and…
You can go read the details, non-existent privacy policies, no auditing of users, widely sharing data without any real investigative purpose, etc. But are we really surprised by this? ““What we’ve learned today is that many law enforcement agencies are violating state law, are retaining personal data for lengthy periods of time, and are disseminating…
These are some interesting numbers, but as a regular Twitter user, who doesn’t tweet about politics, it also doesn’t surprise me because it’s exactly what I see when I compare “on Twitter” to “off Twitter”. “According to just about every study that has been conducted on the question, Twitter is not representative in the slightest….
According to Ralph Losey it’s: The secret has now been told, once again. Most lawyers are not competent to handle electronic evidence. The lawyers who do know how to preserve and find electronic information have a distinct advantage over their technophobe colleagues. This advantage is growing every day. Despite this unconverted fact, the primary coping…