Category «Legal Research»

New database offers macro look at Trump administration’s immigration crackdown

Fast Company: “As the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigration continues, keeping up with Immigrations and Custom Enforcement can feel like navigating a maze. From stories of agents raiding worksites and taking children in broad daylight to reported plans for new detention centers, the daily onslaught of alarming news makes it difficult to see the full …

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

A case study in PDF forensics: The Epstein PDFs

PDF Association: “We report on the technical aspects of the PDF files released by the US Department of Justice in connection with the Epstein Files Transparency Act. The recent release of a tranche of files by the US Department of Justice (DoJ) under the “Epstein Files Transparency Act (H.R.4405)” has once again prompted many people …

Subjects: E-Government, E-Records, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Search Engines

London PR firm rewrites Wikipedia for governments and billionaires

The Bureau of Investigative Journalism: “Twenty-five years after it was founded, Wikipedia stands as an unrivalled achievement. Not only is it the single largest collection of information in human history, it has also built a stellar reputation for reliability in a digital world awash with lies and deception. For this reason, new AI tools have …

Subjects: Education, Financial System, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Search Engines

Trump set off a surge of AI in the federal government. See what happened.

Washington Post: “As the Trump administration seeks to sweep away obstacles to developing artificial intelligence, the president’s team has brought its zeal for the new technology to the federal government itself. Orders came down from the White House budget office in April urging every corner of the government to deploy AI. “The Federal Government will …

Subjects: AI, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, E-Government, E-Records, Economy, Government Documents, Legal Research

Chaos in Minneapolis Exposes an Internet at War With Truth

The New York Times, Gift Article – “…Experts fear that Americans are losing their ability to distinguish between fact and fiction — and that fewer people seem to care about the difference. The online churn that now accompanies any major news event obscures the common reference points that once helped guide the country forward. With …

Subjects: AI, Congress, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Social Media

Here’s how to record ICE and CBP agents as safely as possible

Wired – no paywall: “Filming federal agents in public is legal, but avoiding a dangerous—even deadly—confrontation isn’t guaranteed. Here’s how to record ICE and CBP agents as safely as possible and have an impact… That’s the paradox United States residents face as they decide how to resist—and record—ICE’s incursion into American cities.  “Unfortunately, there is …

Subjects: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Free Speech, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

Outlier and collapse: The enron corpus and foundation model training data

Zimmer, Z. (2026). Outlier and collapse: The enron corpus and foundation model training data. Big Data & Society, 13(1). https://doi.org/10.1177/20539517261421474 (Original work published 2026) – “The Enron Corpus is a canonical training dataset representing one of the first scale jumps in the size of natural language data for machine learning (ML) research. That corpus was …

Subjects: AI, Economy, Education, Energy, Financial System, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

Internet Archive – Search CIA World Factbook Collection

Follow-up to CIA ends publication of its popular World Factbook reference tool, See Also Internet Archive Way Back Machine – Search CIA World Factbook collection: Search 18,004 web pages using an index built from anchor text, all URL parts (file names, hosts, domains), MIME Types, language, HTTP Status codes and the full text of the …

Subjects: E-Records, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

Google Workers Demand End to Cloud Services for Immigration Agencies

The New York Times: “After federal immigration agents killed Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, Google employees lit up the company’s internal message boards with calls for the company to respond. On Friday, more than 800 employees called on management in a petition to be transparent about how Google’s technology supports federal immigration agencies and urged the …

Subjects: Legal Research

New Database Maps the Politics of America’s Workplaces

PHYS.org: “Researchers, including Professor of Management and Organization Reuben Hurst at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business, have produced VRscores, an unprecedented public database for understanding the partisan lean of different employers in the United States. Hurst, with co-authors Justin Frake (University of Michigan) and Max Kagan (Columbia University), developed VRscores …

Subjects: Education, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

The Chatbots Appear to Be Organizing

Vox – AI agents could change your life — if they don’t ruin it first. ChatGPT is boring compared to what comes next. The Atlantic [no paywall] – “The first signs of the apocalypse might look a little like Moltbook: a new social-media platform, launched last week, that is supposed to be populated exclusively by …

Subjects: AI, Economy, Financial System, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Privacy, Search Engines, Social Media