Your Smart TV Knows What You’re Watching
Mohamed Al Elew and Gabriel Hongsdusit describe how to turn off “automated content recognition,” the Shazam-like software on smart TVs that tracks what you’re watching.
Facebook Watches Teens Online As They Prep for College
An investigation by The Markup’s Colin Lecher and Ross Teixeira found Meta’s pixel tracking students from kindergarten to college.
Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, December 9, 2023
Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex and wide ranging ways technology is used to compromise and diminish our privacy and online security, often without our situational awareness. Four highlights from this week: Privacy First: A Better Way to Address Online Harms; A Bold New Plan for Preserving Online Privacy and Security; Automakers’ data privacy practices “are unacceptable”; and Gmail is now much better at detecting spam following major upgrade.
Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, December 4, 2023
Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex and wide ranging ways technology is used to compromise and diminish our privacy and online security, often without our situational awareness. Four highlights from this week: How to Make Your Web Searches More Secure and Private; OpenAI’s Custom Chatbots Are Leaking Their Secrets; Inside the Operation to Bring Down Trump’s Truth Social; and Hamas-Linked Group Revives SysJoker Malware, Leverages OneDrive.
LLRX November 2023 Issue
Articles and Columns for November 2023 AI in Banking and Finance, November 30, 2023 – This semi-monthly column by Sabrina I. Pacifici highlights news, government reports, industry white papers, academic papers and speeches on the subject of AI’s fast paced impact on the banking and finance sectors. The chronological links provided are to the primary …
AI in Banking and Finance, November 30, 2023
This semi-monthly column by Sabrina I. Pacifici highlights news, government reports, industry white papers, academic papers and speeches on the subject of AI’s fast paced impact on the banking and finance sectors. The chronological links provided are to the primary sources, and as available, indicate links to alternate free versions. Each entry includes the publication name, date published, article title and abstract. Four highlights from this post: The Robots Will Insider Trade; AI’s Reverberations across Finance; JPMorgan Says AI Technology Is Starting to Generate Revenue; and BankThink Gen AI is the key to making Gen Z love banks.
Book Review – The Legal Tech Ecosytem
Colin Levy’s extensive experience makes him well qualified to write about lawyer use of technology, and Jerry Lawson’s assessment of this new book is that it provides a clear-eyed view of how lawyers are using technology today and how they should use it tomorrow.
Violence Against Women and International Law
LLRX is highlighting research sources for their relevance and relationship to this site’s Israel-Hamas War Project articles. This guide by Sabrina I. Pacifici will be updated moving forward and currently includes 8 pertinent sources comprising government reports, academic papers, reviews of UN/NGO programs, news, databases, analysis and commentary.
All Things AI Law Librarian-ish, Generative AI, and Legal Research/Education/Technology
Is better case law data fueling a legal research boom? Recently, Rebecca Fordon noticed a surge of new and innovative legal research tools. Fordon wondered what could be fueling this increase, and set off to find out more.
The vast majority of us have no idea what the padlock icon on our internet browser is – and it’s putting us at risk
Do you know what the padlock symbol in your internet browser’s address bar means? If not, you’re not alone. New research by Fiona Carroll and her colleagues shows that only 5% of UK adults understand the padlock’s significance. This is a threat to our online safety.