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Intellectual Property in the New Technological Age: 2017 – Chapters 1 and 2

Menell, Peter S. and Lemley, Mark A. and Merges, Robert P., Intellectual Property in the New Technological Age: 2017 – Chapters 1 and 2 (July 18, 2017). Intellectual Property in the New Technological Age 2017: Vol. II Copyrights, Trademarks and State IP Protections; ISBN-13: 978-1945555077; UC Berkeley Public Law Research Paper; Stanford Public Law Working …

Subjects: Education, Intellectual Property, Legal Research

Online Employee Idea Forum at State Dept. Closed Down

Government Executive: “At the end of August, State Department employees will lose access to the in-house employee online forum called Sounding Board, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s staff announced in a departmentwide email on Aug. 17. Employees were told to archive any previous discussion items of interest because the past content will not be archived, …

Subjects: Censorship, E-Government, Free Speech, Freedom of Information

login.gov – Simple, secure access to government services online

“login.gov offers the public secure and private online access to participating government programs. With one login.gov account, users can sign in to multiple government agencies. Our goal is to make managing federal benefits, services and applications easier and more secure. Because login.gov is a shared service, users need fewer passwords and learn fewer interfaces. Also, …

Subjects: Cybersecurity, E-Government, Government Documents, Knowledge Management, Search Engines

Spying on the Smart Home: Privacy Attacks and Defenses on Encrypted IoT Traffic

Spying on the Smart Home: Privacy Attacks and Defenses on Encrypted IoT Traffic, Noah Apthorpe, Dillon Reisman, Srikanth Sundaresan, Arvind Narayanan, Nick Feamster, arXiv:1708.05044 [cs.CR] “The growing market for smart home IoT devices promises new conveniences for consumers while presenting new challenges for preserving privacy within the home. Many smart home devices have always-on sensors …

Subjects: Internet, Legal Research, Privacy

To Protect Vulnerable Populations, Plant More Trees

Nature Conservancy: “…the urban heat island effect—caused by sparse vegetation and heat-absorbing surfaces like asphalt—can result in temperatures as much as 12°C higher than in less-developed areas nearby. While the heat island effect will remain consistent as the climate changes, the additive challenges of higher temperatures and paved cities will make many neighborhoods less livable..,And …

Subjects: Climate Change, Economy, Environmental Law, Poverty

Role of law librarians continues to change as CI and KM expertise increasingly valued

ThomsonReuters White Paper – Taking a Closer Look at the Changing Role of Today’s Law Librarians – Study indicates substantial change to the demands of the role and a shift in responsibilities “The legal profession has undergone nearly a decade of fundamental change, and perhaps no single role has seen greater impact than the law …

Subjects: Knowledge Management, Legal Research

New studies continue to predict troubled waters ahead for paywall journals

Phys.org – “Two independent studies looking at two aspects of paywalls versus free access to research papers suggest that trouble may lie ahead for traditional journals that continue to expect payment for access to peer-reviewed research papers. In the first study, a small team of researchers from the U.S. and Germany looked at the number …

Subjects: E-Commerce, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Libraries

New on LLRX – High Schoolers in the Law Library: A Law-Related Programming Using Graphic Novels

Via LLRX.com – Assistant Professor of Law and Reference Librarian Brandon Adler’s pathfinder succinctly and instructively communicates how your law library can encourage seniors from local high schools to attend a programming activity in the law library to learn about the opportunities of pursuing a J.D. program.

Subjects: Education, Legal Research, Libraries

New on LLRX – Fingerprint Forensics: From Lore to Law

Via LLRX.com – Fingerprint Forensics: From Lore to Law Notable developments in courtrooms, academia and government institutions, both state and federal, are laying the groundwork for challenges to fingerprint matching. This extensively researched, comprehensive annotated bibliography by Ken Strutin includes new and noteworthy materials such as key opinions, significant articles and online resources concerning accuracy, …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Courts, Legal Research

2017 U.S. State and Federal Government Cybersecurity Research Report

“In August 2017, SecurityScorecard analyzed and scored the current security posture of 552 small, medium and large U.S. government organizations with more than 100 public-facing IP addresses, to determine the state of government cybersecurity programs today. In this report, 2017 U.S. State and Federal Government Cybersecurity Research Report, you’ll learn:  Top performing U.S. State and …

Subjects: Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, E-Government, E-Records

Algorithms in the Criminal Justice System Assessing the Use of Risk Assessments in Sentencing

Algorithms in the Criminal Justice System – Assessing the Use of Risk Assessments in Sentencing, August 25, 2017 Download from DASH Authors: Priscilla Guo, Danielle Kehl, and Sam Kessler. “In the summer of 2016, some unusual headlines began appearing in news outlets across the United States. “Secret Algorithms That Predict Future Criminals Get a Thumbs Up From …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Courts, Knowledge Management, Legal Research