Day archives: August 15th, 2023

Stop Trackers Dead: The Best Private Browsers for 2023

PCMag: “Online marketers mine your data and target you for sales. Foil their efforts with the tracking protection and privacy features offered by the top secure browsers we’ve tested.  Online privacy is a major concern for everyone, and by far the biggest personal privacy issues arise when you browse the internet. Why? Because online marketers …

Subjects: E-Commerce, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Privacy

AI in Banking and Finance, August 15, 2023

Via LLRX – AI in Banking and Finance, August 15, 2023 – This semi-monthly column by Sabrina I. Pacifici highlights news, government and regulatory documents and industry white papers as well as academic papers on the subject of AI’s fast paced impact on the banking and finance sectors. The chronological links provided are to the primary …

Subjects: AI, Economy, Financial System, Internet, Legal Research, Securities Law

The Corporatist Foundations of Financial Regulation

Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance. David T. Zaring is the Elizabeth F. Putzel Professor of Legal Studies & Business Ethics at the University of Pennsylvania. This post is based on his recent paper, published in the Iowa Law Review. “Nobody should feel sorry for banks, necessarily, but they labor under heavy, and in …

Subjects: Economy, Financial System, Government Documents, Legal Research, Legislation

New Accidental Government Information Librarian Webinar

The next Help! I’m an Accidental Government Information Librarian webinar is scheduled for August 29, 2023 from 2:00-3:00pm (Eastern). This session, Tips for Navigating Spatial Data Resources, is hosted by Kevin Dyke – the Maps and Spatial Data Curator at Edmon Low Library. Register here: https://ala-events.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_TB6XPsRGQR6pm3jDPjULvQ#/registration

Subjects: Education, Knowledge Management, Libraries

Amazon Ring does not fight crime

NBC News: “Cute videos, but little evidence: Police say Amazon Ring isn’t much of a crime fighter. Hundreds of police departments have signed agreements with Ring to gain access to footage filmed on home surveillance cameras….Since 2018, Ring has signed up more than 800 law enforcement agencies as “partners,” offering them access to video footage …

Subjects: E-Records, Legal Research, Privacy

How to Use Large Language Models for Empirical Legal Research

Choi, Jonathan H., How to Use Large Language Models for Empirical Legal Research (August 9, 2023). Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics (Forthcoming), Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4536852 – “Legal scholars have long annotated cases by hand to summarize and learn about developments in jurisprudence. Dramatic recent improvements in the performance of large language models (LLMs) …

Subjects: AI, Education, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

Your forgetting to cancel one of many subscriptions is big business

Fortune – Study finds up to 200% sales boost from pure absentmindedness. “Subscription models for goods have become so widespread, it’s possible to live an entire life without permanently owning anything. Thank the subscription economy, kick-started over a decade ago by the likes of Netflix, Spotify, Blue Apron, and Uber, and today encompassing nearly every …

Subjects: E-Commerce, Economy, Financial System, Internet

Google says AI systems should be able to mine publishers’ work unless companies opt out

The Guardian – “The tech company’s latest proposal about generative AI turns copyright law on its head, and could especially hurt smaller content creators, say experts. Google says AI systems should be able to mine publishers’ work unless companies opt out. The tech company’s latest proposal about generative AI turns copyright law on its head, …

Subjects: AI, Copyright, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

Drought Center

“We’re the National Drought Mitigation Center at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The National Drought Mitigation Center’s mission is to reduce the effects of drought on people, the environment and the economy by researching the science of drought monitoring and the practice of drought planning. We collaborate with and learn from decision-makers at all levels – …

Subjects: Climate Change, Economy, Education, Food and Nutrition