Day archives: February 4th, 2020

Should the public pay a dime for access to court records?

Washington Post – “The federal judiciary charges 10 cents per page to pull up court files from its online record repository. The fees can add up quickly, and users must consider whether each click to view a public record is worth the cost. But a lawsuit in court Monday in Washington challenges the government’s paywall …

Subjects: Courts, E-Government, Government Documents, Legal Research

Law Firm Launches Free E-Discovery App

eWeek: “New York-based law firm Reed Smith on Feb. 3 announced the launch of the new “E-Discovery App” for litigation professionals and others in the e-discovery community. This mobile application was developed in-house by the firm’s Records & E-Discovery (RED) Practice Group in collaboration with the firm’s legal tech subsidiary, Gravity Stack. The E-Discovery App …

Subjects: E-Records, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

Coronavirus Tracker from John Hopkins University

This continuously updated global tracker identifies confirmed cases of the coronavirus by country and region – along with total deaths and total recovered – with an additional map view. See also  via Vice – ‘It’s a Moral Imperative:’ Archivists Made a Directory of 5,000 Coronavirus Studies to Bypass Paywalls – The potentially illegal archive is …

Subjects: Government Documents, Health Care, Intellectual Property, Internet, Knowledge Management

Tool to Help Journalists Spot Doctored Images Is Unveiled by Jigsaw

The New York Times – The company, owned by Google’s parent, introduced a free tool it calls Assembler to sort out real images from fake ones. “On February 4, 2020, Jigsaw, a company that develops cutting-edge tech and is owned by Google’s parent, unveiled a free tool that researchers said could help journalists spot doctored …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Search Engines, Social Media