Linked: Instagram Tests Hiding Like Counts to Reduce Focus on Vanity Metrics
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Linked: Instagram Tests Hiding Like Counts to Reduce Focus on Vanity Metrics

This is, probably, a decent idea, but I have a question for Instagram, and Twitter for that matter. Look at the rationale for getting rid of “likes”: “”Testing a Change to How You See Likes – We want your followers to focus on what you share, not how many likes your posts get. During this…

Linked: It’s Official: Self-care Leads to Long-term Business Success
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Linked: It’s Official: Self-care Leads to Long-term Business Success

The article is directed at founders, but I think we can all see similar hours and stresses in the legal and eDiscovery industries, no? “Over 50 per cent of owners work nine hour-plus days and 43 per cent work weekends. But long hours don’t make you more effective: you’re wasting time spinning wheels because you’re…

Linked: How Big Data is Blowing Up Legal Costs
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Linked: How Big Data is Blowing Up Legal Costs

What numbers like this say to me is that far too many organizations have bought in to the value of “big data” with no thought as to how storing, protecting, and reviewing that data is going to get done. “Conducted by Rabin Research Company among senior in-house counsel at leading U.S. corporations, BDO’s 2019 Inside…

Linked: Fish in a barrel – evidence on social media sends claimant to prison
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Linked: Fish in a barrel – evidence on social media sends claimant to prison

This is just stupid. I’ll let Chris Dale explain: “Elder’s claim to a much larger sum was undermined in part by old-fashioned surveillance, which showed that she went shopping and walked her dog without a stick. The main evidence against her (or, at least, the part which won most attention) was that social media photographs…

Cellebrite and Law Enforcement Expect Us to Trust Them, Yet Their Tools Are on eBay?

Cellebrite and Law Enforcement Expect Us to Trust Them, Yet Their Tools Are on eBay?

I’ve already talked on and on about how various governments expect to be able to require backdoors into encrypted data, including mobile devices. When it’s pointed out that any backdoor will eventually be used by hackers, the usual response from law enforcement is to “trust us” because they have some magic ability to prevent hackers…