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    Linked: Why IT Departments Need to Consider Deepfakes

    If I had to guess, I think most people, when asked about “deepfakes”, if they are concerned at all, are concerned about elections, political fakes, or famous people being taken down by fake videos. We aren’t thinking about phishing, and yet, in a time when many companies are struggling with employees who can’t seem tor…

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    What I’m Sharing (weekly)

    Google Has a Plan to Disrupt the College Degree?This is pretty interesting, could work, if we can get orgs to see it as “qualified”. Would open a ton of doors.
    Toward a Zoom agreement?”The purpose of a meeting is not to fill the allocated slot on the Google calendar invite. The purpose is to communicate an idea and the emotions that go with it, and to find out what’s missing via engaged conversation. If we can’t do that, let’s not meet.”
    Report: AI Company Leaks Over 2.5M Medical Records
    The Intersection of E-Discovery and Cybersecurity: You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby
    Think You Don’t Need to Preserve Slack Data for Discovery? Think Again
    There is No Such Thing as a Free Lunch in Legal Tech
    Non-Lawyer Ownership Doesn’t Guarantee More A2J?The $$ barrier to entry for someone to even be a lawyer guarantees legal services will always be expensive. #A2J will require systemic changes.
    5 Best Password Managers of 2020
    Surveys Show Technology Is The Key To Law Firm Success During COVID-19 And Beyond
    Minimize The Risk of Data Loss From Departing Employees With These Simple Checklists

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    What I’m Sharing (weekly) Aug 2, 2020

    Flexibility and transparency: The keys to good remote leadership

    Three Key Tips to Keep in Mind When Leveraging Corporate G Suite for eDiscovery

    Five Strategies for Building Relationships Remotely

    Mothers Are Paying the Price at Work for Coronavirus
    -“Preventing a mass exodus of mothers from the workforce must be a priority.”

    What Does Private Browsing Do? Less Than You Probably Think

    Face masks are breaking facial recognition algorithms, says new government study
    – Aww that’s a shame. Not.

    The Biggest Lesson from the Twitter Breach
    – “Focus on the vulnerability of humans”

    The Sedona Conference Commentary on Law Firm Data Security Released

    The End of Life Hacking
    – If you were around in the early days of blogging, this may make you laugh, or cringe. Maybe both.

    Microsoft told employees to work from home. One consequence was brutal

    – The lesson, management and employees need to create boundaries around when you’re working, and when you’re NOT.

    WORK from home or don’t work at all: telecommuting in the age of COVID-19

    Business as Unusual? Eighteen Observations on eDiscovery Business Confidence in the Summer of 2020

  • What I’m Sharing (weekly)

    The Implications of Working Without an Office

    The Explosion of Organizational Data is at a Tipping Point: Here’s How to Understand What You Have and Mitigate Risk

    This Big Law Firm Has Permanent Plans for Remote Working

    Zooming from video meetings to discovery requests about video meetings

    How To Enable Ransomware Protection Feature on Windows 10

    Coronavirus: The Expert’s Practical Guide to Job Searching During Self Containment

    Discovery from Microsoft Office 365

    Deloitte Takes Aim at U.S. Legal Services Market With Tech Unit

    – Not really a surprise, the Big 4 have been moving significantly into this area, and thanks to COVID layoffs, lots of in-house teams are doing with less, looking for options.

    10 Tips for Job Searching When You Also Have Depression

    Estonia is Building a “Robot Judge” to Help Clear Legal Backlog

    – Interesting, but dangerous if they can’t get the bias out of the #AI

    Beware of the Perils of Allowing Self-Collection

  • Shut Up and Encrypt

    While watching the Alex Winter film about the Panama Papers, this quote stood out to me, given all of the talk about the “dangers” of encryption.

    While working with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists in the early days of investigating the data leaked from the Mossack Fonseca law firm, the importance of not letting anyone know that the data had leaked, or that it was all being investigated, was paramount, so they lived with this slogan:

    “Shut Up and Encrypt”

  • What I’m Sharing (weekly) – June 28, 2020

    New Hampshire removes mental health questions from bar application Taking care about time and place data in eDiscovery – things may not be as simple as they seem – Is that GPS location really accurate? Five Tips for Speaking Virtually How employers can help workers’ mental health during COVID-19 Law Firm Reopening Guidance: A Round…