Category «Legal Research»

Review of DOJ Process to Obtain Records of Members of Congress, Media

DOJ Oversight and Review Division 25-01. Redacted For Public Release. A Review of the Department of Justice’s Issuance of Compulsory Process to Obtain Records of Members of Congress, Congressional Staffers, and Members of the News Media: “In the spring and summer of 2017, CNN.com (CNN), The New York Times, and The Washington Post published articles …

Subjects: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Courts, Free Speech, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Legal Research

Senate Judiciary Committee Investigative Report on Ethical Crisis at the Supreme Court

The culmination of a 20-month investigation, the staff report features new information and a comprehensive analysis of the ongoing ethics challenge at the Supreme Court. The Senate Judiciary Committee, chaired by U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), released the findings of its 20-month investigation into the ethical crisis at the Supreme Court, including the …

Subjects: Congress, Courts, Financial System, Government Documents, Legal Research, Legislation

The Breachies 2024: The Worst, Weirdest, Most Impactful Data Breaches of the Year

EFF: “Every year, countless emails hit our inboxes telling us that our personal information was accessed, shared, or stolen in a data breach. In many cases, there is little we can do. Most of us can assume that at least our phone numbers, emails, addresses, credit card numbers, and social security numbers are all available …

Subjects: Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, E-Mail, E-Records, Economy, Financial System, Government Documents, Health Care, ID Theft, Internet, Legal Research, Privacy

What is your digital footprint and how can you protect it?

Proton VPN Blog: “Whenever you do something online, you leave a trail of information behind that can be used to uniquely identify and track you. This is your digital footprint(new window). In this article, we’ll look at: What is a digital footprint? Digital footprint examples Why does your digital footprint matter? How to check your …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, E-Commerce, Internet, Legal Research, Search Engines, Social Media

Every AI Copyright Lawsuit in the US, Visualized

Wired: “WIRED is following every copyright battle involving the AI industry—and we’ve created some handy visualizations that will be updated as the cases progress. In May 2020, the media and technology conglomerate Thomson Reuters sued a small legal AI startup called Ross Intelligence, alleging that it had violated US copyright law by reproducing materials from …

Subjects: AI, Copyright, Courts, Legal Research

Publishers Battle for the C-Suite

The New York Times [unpaywalled] – “Numerous media outlets, looking for new lucrative lines of business, are pursuing newsletters and events aimed specifically at top executives. When the digital news start-up Semafor began in 2022, its founders talked about reaching a vast global audience of 200 million college-educated, English-speaking people. But their latest push is …

Subjects: Economy, Financial System, Legal Research, Marketing

Even laypeople use legalese

MIT News – “MIT study explains why laws are written in an incomprehensible style. Legal documents are notoriously difficult to understand, even for lawyers. This raises the question: Why are these documents written in a style that makes them so impenetrable? MIT cognitive scientists believe they have uncovered the answer to that question. Just as …

Subjects: Education, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

Introducing DiscoverGov: GPO’s New Discovery Search Tool

GPO is pleased to introduce DiscoverGov, our new, web-based search tool. DiscoverGov provides simple, one-stop searching across multiple U.S. Federal Government databases, including GPO’s Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (CGP) and GovInfo.  It will retrieve reports, articles, and citations while providing direct links to selected resources and publications available online. Come meet DiscoverGov as we release …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Legislation, Libraries, Search Engines

Uber for Nursing: How an AI-Powered Gig Model Is Threatening Health Care

Roosevelt Institute: “The gig economy’s labor model and its algorithmic management technologies now have a foothold in one of the largest labor sectors in the country: health care. On-demand nursing companies such as CareRev, Clipboard Health, ShiftKey, and ShiftMed have promised hospitals more control and nurses more flexibility. Through original interviews with 29 “gig” nurses …

Subjects: AI, Health Care, Legal Research, Legislation, Medicine

If You’re Pregnant, Here’s What You Should Know About the Medical Procedures That Could Save Your Life

ProPublica: “We heard the same story again and again this year: The women were having miscarriages. They were bleeding and in pain. They needed a medical procedure to clear their uterus, but their doctors delayed it or didn’t even counsel them about it. Our yearlong investigation found that abortion laws are affecting how physicians treat …

Subjects: Health Care, Legal Research, Medicine, Privacy