Day archives: February 23rd, 2023

How to delete your Twitter account and protect your data, too

ZDNet: “Even before all of the turmoil that’s plagued Twitter since Elon Musk’s takeover, there were many reasons why people wanted to leave it. From social media detoxes, to simply migrating to a new platform, the transition happens more than you might think. Now, since Elon Musk appears to be failing in his promise not to turn Twitter …

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management, Privacy, Social Media

Section 230 Won’t Protect ChatGPT

Lawfare, Matt Perault: “The emergence of products fueled by generative artificial intelligence (AI) such as ChatGPT will usher in a new era in the platform liability wars. Previous waves of new communication technologies—from websites and chat rooms to social media apps and video sharing services—have been shielded from legal liability for content posted on their …

Subjects: AI, Courts, Free Speech, Government Documents, Legal Research, Social Media

Linux Foundation Europe launches the OpenWallet Foundation to power interoperable digital wallets

Tech Crunch: “The Linux Foundation‘s European off-shoot has formally launched the OpenWallet Foundation (OWF), a new collaborative effort designed to support interoperability between digital wallets through open source software. The launch comes some five months after the Linux Foundation first revealed plans to set up the OWF, shortly before it spun out a region-specific entity …

Subjects: Economy, Financial System, Internet

NSA Releases Best Practices For Securing Your Home Network

“The National Security Agency (NSA) released the “Best Practices for Securing Your Home Network” Cybersecurity Information Sheet (CSI) today to help teleworkers protect their home networks from malicious cyber actors. “In the age of telework, your home network can be used as an access point for nation-state actors and cybercriminals to steal sensitive information,” said …

Subjects: Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, E-Mail, E-Records, Government Documents, Internet

Teaching to the Tech: Law Schools and the Duty of Technology Competence

Brescia, Raymond H., Teaching to the Tech: Law Schools and the Duty of Technology Competence (February 16, 2023). Washburn Law Journal, Forthcoming, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4361552 “As a result of a wide range of emerging technologies, the American legal profession is at a critical inflection point. Some may argue that lawyers face dramatic threats not …

Subjects: Education, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

AI and the Everything in the Whole Wide World Benchmar

AI and the Everything in the Whole Wide World Benchmark, 26 November 2021 – “There is a tendency across different subfields in AI to valorize a small collection of influential benchmarks. These benchmarks operate as stand-ins for a range of anointed common problems that are frequently framed as foundational milestones on the path towards flexible …

Subjects: AI, Internet, Knowledge Management