Category «E-Records»

US officials urge Americans to use encrypted apps amid unprecedented cyberattack

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), National Security Agency (NSA), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and international partners published today a joint guide, Enhanced Visibility and Hardening Guidance for Communications Infrastructure, that provides best practices to protect against a People’s Republic of China (PRC)-affiliated threat actor that has compromised networks of major global telecommunications …

Subjects: Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, E-Mail, E-Records, Government Documents, Microsoft, Privacy

FTC Bans Location Data Company That Powers the Surveillance Ecosystem

“The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) proposed order bans use or sale of data associated with military installations, churches, healthcare facilities, or other sensitive locations. The Federal Trade Commission will prohibit data broker Mobilewalla, Inc. from selling sensitive location data, including data that reveals the identity of an individual’s private home, to settle allegations the data …

Subjects: E-Records, Government Documents, Health Care, Internet, Legal Research, Medicine, Privacy

FTC – Examining the Data Practices of Social Media and Video Streaming Services

Examining the Data Practices of Social Media and Video Streaming Services, September 2024. In December 2020, the Federal Trade Commission issued 6(b) Orders to nine of the largest social media and video streaming services—Amazon, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Snap, ByteDance, Discord, Reddit, and WhatsApp (“Companies”). At the time, a bipartisan group of Commissioners issued a joint …

Subjects: AI, E-Commerce, E-Records, Government Documents, Health Care, ID Theft, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Medicine, Privacy

The Right Way to Use GenAI to Draft a Brief

The Right Way to Use GenAI to Draft a Brief, Carolyn Elefant (December 2024) – “It’s been two years since the public release of ChatGPT and lawyers are still using it improperly and facing sanctions, as reported last week in Reuters about an incident in the Eastern District of Texas/ Instead of wringing our hands …

Subjects: AI, Courts, E-Records, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

AI, huge hacks leave consumers facing a perfect storm of privacy perils

Washington Post gift article – “Hackers are using artificial intelligence to mine unprecedented troves of personal information dumped online in the past year, along with unregulated commercial databases, to trick American consumers and even sophisticated professionals into giving up control of bank and corporate accounts. Armed with sensitive health information, calling records and hundreds of …

Subjects: AI, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, E-Commerce, E-Records, Internet, Legal Research, Privacy

The Great Scrape: The Clash Between Scraping and Privacy

Solove, Daniel J. and Hartzog, Woodrow, The Great Scrape: The Clash Between Scraping and Privacy (July 03, 2024). 113 California Law Review (forthcoming 2025), Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4884485 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4884485 Artificial intelligence (AI) systems depend on massive quantities of data, often gathered by “scraping” – the automated extraction of large amounts of data from …

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

Senators Say TSA’s Facial Recognition Program Is Out of Control

Gizmodo: “A bipartisan group of 12 senators has urged the Transportation Security Administration’s inspector general to investigate the agency’s use of facial recognition, saying it poses a significant threat to privacy and civil liberties. Their letter comes just before one of the busiest travel periods of the year when millions of Americans are expected to …

Subjects: Congress, E-Records, Legal Research, Privacy, Transportation

Surveillance Self-Defense Tips, Tools and How-tos for Safer Online Communications

We’re the Electronic Frontier Foundation, an independent non-profit working to protect online privacy for over thirty years. This is Surveillance Self-Defense: our expert guide to protecting you and your friends from online spying. Surveillance Self-Defense (SSD) is a guide to protecting yourself from electronic surveillance for people all over the world. Some aspects of this …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, E-Mail, E-Records, Free Speech, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Privacy

MS Word is Using You to Train AI

Medium unpaywalled – How to turn off AI-scraping from your Word documents and a 2nd unpaywalled option: “Microsoft Office, like many companies in recent months, has slyly turned on an “opt-out” feature that scrapes your Word and Excel documents to train its internal AI systems. This setting is turned on by default, and you have …

Subjects: AI, E-Records, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Privacy

Overlooked Google Docs Feature Makes Organizing Information a Breeze

MakeUseOf: “Google Docs is packed with useful tools, but some of its best features often go unnoticed. One such feature is the Documents Tab, a powerful but overlooked tool that can make organizing and accessing your information much simpler…”

Subjects: E-Records, Legal Research

How to Add Extra Security Layers to Your Phone or Tablet

The New York Times [no paywall]: “Losing a smartphone or tablet stuffed with your life’s details can be a nightmare, but your privacy may also be at risk in less obvious situations — like if you leave your unlocked phone unattended or if the children know your tablet’s passcode. While apps for financial or medical …

Subjects: Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, E-Mail, E-Records, Internet, Privacy

How Google Spent 15 Years Creating a Culture of Concealment

The New York Times [free article] – “Trying to avoid antitrust suits, Google systematically told employees to destroy messages, avoid certain words and copy the lawyers as often as possible…How Google developed this distrustful culture was pieced together from hundreds of documents and exhibits, as well as witness testimony, in three antitrust trials against the …

Subjects: Censorship, Courts, E-Mail, E-Records, Internet, Legal Research

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