Shared Links (weekly) Dec. 28, 2025
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Linked – Doc Searls Weblog · GDPR will pop the adtech bubble
I don’t think many people have been thinking much about how much is going to change in a couple of weeks. “Sunrise day” for the GDPR is 25 May. That’s when the EU can start smacking fines on violators. Simply put, your site or service is a violator if it extracts or processes personal data…
Linked – How DNA Databases Violate Everyone’s Privacy
This seems less than ideal. “If you’re an American of European descent, there’s a 60% chance you can be uniquely identified by public information in DNA databases. This is not information that you have made public; this is information your relatives have made public.” There are links on Bruce’s post to a more detailed article…
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How Should Smart Ediscovery Professionals Prepare for Smart Cities? We Teach A.I. Systems Everything, Including Our Biases Crappy Passwords Are Here to Stay Sorry, but I’ve lost my faith in tech evangelism – Interesting thoughts on #AI and #FacialRecognition for sure. Why Machine Learning Is Still Dumb In eDiscovery, a Sense of Humor Helps Internal…
Why Use a Password Manager – To Help Others Access When You Can’t
Aside from the bajillion reasons to use a password manager, like LastPass, KeePass, etc. when it comes to security, there’s one other really big reason to do it. First off, let’s go ahead and acknowledge that there are good reasons to use one. We all have too many passwords to remember, so even though we…
Easy Prediction – AI Will Eat Most of the Ways We Get Our News
This should not surprise anyone. The ability of anyone to create an avalanche of content capable of overwhelming any algorithmic curation is here. It exists, and it is happening. It’s only going to get worse. Fake profiles sharing fake stories from AI-written content farms will eventually overwhelm the number of people online and make every network worthless. If you think there aren’t already thousands and thousands of these, you haven’t been paying attention. ChatGPT just made it easier to do.
The only thing we’ll be able to fall back on is trusting the people we know personally. Assuming we can tell the difference.
