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Mobile Devices Can Provide Lucrative Back Door Into Businesses for Cyber Thieves
We live with the reality that the once ordinary communication tool is now a potent device that needs to be used responsibly on the basis that there is a cybercriminal fraternity hell-bent on accessing said devices for ill-gotten gain.
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Hybrid Work Environments Add to Internal Cybersecurity Risk
Are law firms truly prepared for evolving threats on the horizon, especially with hybrid work arrangements gaining momentum?
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9th Circuit: Police Violated Google Users' Privacy Rights After Automated Email Scan Detected Child Pornography
A federal appeals court found that law enforcement violated a Google user's constitutional rights when it opened email attachments the platform flagged as child pornography through an automated system.
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Flat Fee or Consumption-Based E-Discovery Pricing? Depends on Who You Ask
Being charged per gigabyte by an e-discovery software platform isn't new, but it can still be a budgetary drain for law firms that handle many large e-discovery matters.
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Slut-Shamed In the Workplace? Avoiding Exposure for Your Employees' Exposure
Situations involving an employee's voluntary online exposure rarely end well and can bring legal exposure for the employer.
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How to Address Evolving Privacy Regulations During Discovery
One Recipe for Success: Treat Private Data With the Same Priority Given to Privilege But for all the coverage that privacy regulations are meant to provide, there is precious little guidance about how to protect private information, and there is very little legal precedent to guide our practices.
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Artificial Intelligence and Subject Matter Eligibility In U.S. Patent Office Appeals
For the foreseeable future, patent applications involving artificial intelligence technologies, including machine learning, will increase with the continued proliferation of such technologies. However, subject matter eligibility can be a significant challenge in securing patents on artificial intelligence and machine learning.
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Biometric Law Litigation Expands Beyond Social Media
Social media has played an oversized role in lawsuits under state and local biometric privacy laws. Now, a New York City law that took effect in July is likely to significantly expand the range of biometric-related litigation beyond social media companies to a new group of defendants: retail stores, places of entertainment, and food and drink establishments.
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Emojis and E-Discovery
Emojis are an important aspect of everyday communication in 2021. Given their ubiquity, there should be little surprise that emojis have become a key source of evidence in civil and criminal cases.
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Applying Scientific Method to E-Discovery Growth
This article discusses scientific method as it applies to the growth of e-discovery and its protocols.
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