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Top 4 legal technology news stories of 2022

ABA Journal, Nicole Black: “After one of the most challenging periods in recent history, 2022 was a year of reemergence. We once again entered public spaces, cautiously embracing a semblance of normalcy. At the same time, the painful memories of the incredibly challenging and tumultuous years of the pandemic were ever-present in our minds. Law …

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Marketing

Mastodon 101: how to follow (and unfollow) other accounts

The Verge – You can follow whoever you want, no matter which Mastodon ‘instance’ they hang out in. “The torrent of former tweeters streaming toward alternative social networks seems to be ongoing, and the social network that is probably gaining the most attention is Mastodon. This open-source network of independent servers (called “instances”) had jumped …

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management, Social Media

How to Use ChatGPT and Still Be a Good Person

The New York Times: “The past few weeks have felt like a honeymoon phase for our relationship with tools powered by artificial intelligence. Many of us have prodded ChatGPT, a chatbot that can generate responses with startlingly natural language, with tasks like writing stories about our pets, composing business proposals and coding software programs. At …

Subjects: AI, Education, Internet, Legal Research

Brave launches FrodoPIR, a privacy-focused database query system

Via Brave – FrodoPIR: a new privacy-preserving approach for retrieving data. “To read more about our FrodoPIR scheme, you can find details here. The paper has been accepted to the Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETS), Vol. 2023, Issue 1, and will also appear here.” Bleeping Computer: “Brave Software developers have created a new privacy-centric …

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Privacy, Search Engines

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, December 24, 2022

Via LLRX – Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, December 24, 2022 – Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly …

Subjects: Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, E-Mail, Privacy, Social Media

How Much Lifetime Social Security Benefits Are Americans Leaving on the Table?

How Much Lifetime Social Security Benefits Are Americans Leaving on the Table? David Altig, Laurence J. Kotlikoff, Victor Yifan Ye, November 16, 2022: “Americans are notoriously bad savers. Large numbers are reaching old age too poor to finance retirements that could last longer than they worked. This study uses the 2018 American Community Survey to …

Subjects: Economy, Financial System

FlightAware

“FlightAware provides accurate real-time, historical and predictive flight insights to all segments of the aviation industry”. https://flightaware.com/live/cancelled/ #Flightdelays #Transportation #Airlines #Aviation

Subjects: Transportation

The FDA Now Says It Plainly: Morning-After Pills Are Not Abortion Pills

The New York Times: “The Food and Drug Administration on Friday [December 23, 2022] significantly changed the information that will be in every box of the most widely used emergency contraceptive pills to make clear that they do not prevent a fertilized egg from implanting in the womb. The agency explained in an accompanying document …

Subjects: Health Care, Legal Research, Medicine

Welcome to Hotel Elsevier: you can check-out any time you like … not

Dr. Eiko Fried: “In December 2021, Robin Kok wrote a series of tweets about his Elsevier data access request. I did the same a few days later. This here is the resulting collaborative blog post, summarizing our journey in trying to understand what data Elsevier collects; what data Elsevier has collected on us two specifically; …

Subjects: E-Mail, E-Records, EU Data Protection, Internet, Legal Research, Privacy

Release of Select Committee Materials – Additional Witness Testimony Transcripts

Dec 22, 2022 – Washington —”Today, the Select Committee made public additional transcripts of witness testimony that was gathered over the course of the Select Committee’s investigation into the January 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol These records can now be found on the Select Committee’s website: Cassidy Hutchinson, September 14, 2022, September 15, 2022. …

Subjects: Congress, Government Documents, Legal Research