Linked: Creepy. McDonald’s Knows What You Want to Order Thanks to AI
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Linked: Creepy. McDonald’s Knows What You Want to Order Thanks to AI

Hmm, so do you trust McDonald’s to keep your license plate information safe, and thus also your location information? “At some drive-throughs, McDonald’s has tested technology that can recognize license-plate numbers, allowing the company to tailor a list of suggested purchases to a customer’s previous orders, if the person agrees to sign away the data….

Linked: Tech Trends That Could Change How Firms Operate
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Linked: Tech Trends That Could Change How Firms Operate

The trends identified in the article are worth reading, but this passage made my eyebrows raise specifically: “Sooner or later, some client is going to want permission for a computer to snap a photo of the attorney working on their case to verify billing,” Knight says. “Why wouldn’t computers take screenshots of what they’re working…

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Tying Deduplication to your eDiscovery Bottom Line Relativity Fest 2019: Top Buzzed-About eDiscovery and Legal Trends Dark Web Site Taken Down without Breaking Encryption 11 Short and Scary Tales from the Ediscovery Crypt 3 Ways the Workplace Is Changing as Millennials Prioritize Mental Health Is your law firm ready for a data breach? 76 Percent…

Linked: Steak With A Side Of Surveillance: Outback Restaurants Adding Employee-Tracking Analytics To Its Cameras
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Linked: Steak With A Side Of Surveillance: Outback Restaurants Adding Employee-Tracking Analytics To Its Cameras

I’ve been saying this for years, stop making your employee management problems an issue for IT to fix: Turning personnel management over to tech solutions seldom results in better management or better employees As the Techdirt article below details, what you’re likely to get is more of whatever it is you decide to measure. Just…

Linked: Banning out-of-hours access to work emails could harm employee wellbeing
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Linked: Banning out-of-hours access to work emails could harm employee wellbeing

This is an interesting finding, seemingly contrary to what we’ve seen before: “There’s a fine line between taking time out and feeling left out. Not checking work emails after hours may sound like a welcome relief from the 24/7 work culture where managers expect their subordinates to be hooked up to their smartphone at all…