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    The Problem with Total Surveillance

    ByMike McBride Reading Time: 3 minutes

    According to the emails I’ve received just in the past couple of weeks:

    I’m actively seeking employment in Pennsylvania
    I own rental property in Las Vegas
    I have wives and children enrolled in schools in NC, VA and Canada.
    I travel back and forth between San Francisco and New Zealand frequently
    I frequent some “interesting” dating sites, including at least one that caters to cheating spouses. (Great, thanks to whoever used my email address to sign up for that at the same time my wife is across the country, that doesn’t look odd!!!!)
    I am paying for cable internet/TV service for a young lady in Michigan. (Student using their stepfather’s payment info maybe?)
    I shop at some online retailers in England.
    Now, none of that is true

  • This Week’s Links (weekly)

    ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

    Improving your eDiscovery Vocabulary is as Easy as 123 tags: MM LitSupport 3 Benefits of a Simple Document Review Coding Layout tags: MM LitSupport Intro to Predictive Coding: Overview & Interpretation of Terminology June 2014 tags: MM LitSupport First the Internet of things, next the industrial Internet tags: MM LitSupport Schneier on Security: Over a…

  • Google Finds a Predator

    ByMike McBride Reading Time: 2 minutes

    Cross posted from the Child Abuse Survivor site The tech world is alive with news that Google has helped locate and charge a predator based on scanning their email for child pornography images. Obviously, this is a case of a stupid criminal, if you’re going to share illegal images, using a cloud service provider that…

  • Why Net Neutrality Matters

    ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

    TechDirt has a good example that should show you what is at stake with net neutrality rules. For about $12, Sprint will soon let subscribers buy a wireless plan that only connects to Facebook. For that same price, they could choose instead to connect only with Twitter, Instagram or Pinterest—or for $10 more, enjoy unlimited…

  • This Week’s Links (weekly)

    ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

    Top Ten Internet Hoaxes of 2014 And the year is only half way over… tags:MM SocNetPres Review : eDiscovery Assistant for iPad tags:MM LitSupport Proportionality Prevents Mirror Imaging of Family Computers tags:MM LitSupport TrueCrypt Is Dead: 4 Disk Encryption Alternatives For Windows tags:Tech Security MM 9 Steps to a More Defensible Email Collection Protoco tags:MM…

  • Social Media Mob Fail, Twits Target SCOTUSblog over SCOTUS decision

    ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

    Yes it’s sadly true. A blog that covers the Supreme Court has spent the entire day responding, in a most humorous way, to tweets blasting them as if they were the Supreme Court itself. Dear Internet, SCOTUSblog Is Not the Supreme Court I’m generally not a big fan of social media mobs, they tend to…