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 … Continued
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 … Continued
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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 … Continued
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 … Continued
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 … Continued
Notes on the NordVPN Hack
If you haven’t seen the news yet, you can read about what happened, and how it happened, here. I want to, however, take a moment to share a couple of things that stick out to me: The most obvious … Continued
Why technologists need to get involved in public policy? – Bruce Schneier
Bruce makes some interesting points in this presentation, it’s certainly something to think about. First, watch: I’ll be honest, I’ve been on the side of leaving technology alone for the most part, but his point about the legal industry, and … Continued