Linked – Facebook seeks patent on tech that turns on your smartphone microphone
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Linked – Facebook seeks patent on tech that turns on your smartphone microphone

Doesn’t sound creepy at all, does it? “The application, first reported by Metro, was published on June 14 and lays out how Facebook might remotely turn on your phone’s mic to start recording. Essentially, Facebook would embed high-pitched audio signals in “broadcast content” (think TV ads) that would be inaudible to humans. But whereas our…

Linked – What Legal Tech Is Doing to Legal Ethics
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Linked – What Legal Tech Is Doing to Legal Ethics

This is an interesting thought. “For attorneys that can’t keep up with what becomes generally accepted as standard practice for lawyer tech, like email, there could be an ethical issue with charging clients for tasks that take twice as long due to antiquated business practices.” I think this is something that we could very easily…

Should We Worry About People Who Run Social Media Accounts for Businesses?
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Should We Worry About People Who Run Social Media Accounts for Businesses?

According to this article, yes we should. And I tend to agree. It takes seconds to tag a brand, send a mean Tweet and publicly shame them into responding to a complaint in front of millions. But we often forget that there are still real people manning the phones, and hiding behind a screen doesn’t…

Linked – Police: Uber driver was streaming Hulu just before fatal self-driving car crash
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Linked – Police: Uber driver was streaming Hulu just before fatal self-driving car crash

What a total cluster! “Police obtained records from Hulu suggesting that Vasquez was watching “The Voice,” a singing talent competition that airs on NBC, just before the crash. Hulu’s records showed she began watching the program at 9:16pm. Streaming of the show ended at 9:59pm, which “coincides with the approximate time of the collision,” according to…

Linked – IBM’s machine argues, pretty convincingly, with humans
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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…

Linked – Why Your FOIA Request Might Not Get Text Messages
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Linked – Why Your FOIA Request Might Not Get Text Messages

This is mostly because it’s too difficult and/or expensive to retain SMS messages, but I have another takeaway. “In other words, only 22 percent of FOIA requestors got everything they asked for. 22 percent!” The demand for the Federal government to move this percentage higher is going to result in a lot more scrutiny of…