Is this common? First time I’ve
see it.
Ca:
LifeLabs files petition to keep cyberattack report from B.C. privacy
commissioner
Andrew
Weichel reports:
The B.C.-based laboratory testing company that was targeted in a cyberattack last fall is trying to keep the province’s privacy commissioner from accessing a third-party report on the breach.
In a petition filed this month in B.C. Supreme Court, LifeLabs argued it shouldn’t have to turn over a report prepared by cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike because it’s protected by solicitor-client privilege.
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more on CTV
News.
[From
the article:
Beyond
solicitor-client privilege, the company argued the report is
protected by litigation privilege, which covers documents and
communications prepared expressly in anticipation of a lawsuit.
Sometimes
you are your own worst enemy.
‘Catastrophic
data loss’ affects thousands of Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office
dashcam videos
Rosana
Hughes reports:
A “catastrophic data loss” caused thousands of Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office videos from dashboard cameras to disappear — and potentially could jeopardize criminal and civil cases.
All dash camera footage for all 130 patrol deputies between Oct. 25, 2018, and Jan. 23 of this year was lost after a software failure on Jan. 13, according to a letter hand-delivered to the District Attorney’s Office this week. The footage could not be recovered, as that was the only server used to store the videos.
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more on Chattanooga
Times Free Press.
This was not a cyberattack situation but a drive failure and
discovery that the
system had not been making backups correctly
disaster.
How
influential are these companies (or their users)?
IANS
reports:
A coalition comprising digital media giants Facebook, Google and Twitter (among others) have spoken out against the new regulations approved by the Pakistani government for social media, threatening to suspend services in the country if the rules were not revised, it was reported.
In a letter to Prime Minster Imran Khan earlier this month, the Asia Internet Coalition (AIC) called on his government to revise the new sets of rules and regulations for social media, The News International reported on Friday.
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more on Business
Standard.
True
for all fields?
How
accurate is AI in legal research?
… “Lawyers
have an exceptionalism fallacy, and they’re trained to do things
completely perfect,” he said, mentioning legal research. “Lawyers
are far better at research than most humans, but that doesn’t mean
we’re good at it. It means we’re less horrible at it than other
humans.”
That
being said, Hamilton argued that there
may come a time when courts demand lawyers use artificial
intelligence to research arguments.
He noted how quickly lawyers have gone from books, to computer
programs, to online services for legal research.
A
case study?
How
Going All-In on Machine Learning Changed Data Collection at
Morningstar
Ahmad
joined Morningstar, which provides research and proprietary tools to
investors, in 2010 and stepped into the role of head of technology
for the data collection group in the summer of 2018. His first order
of business was to automate the data collection process which, up
until that point, had relied on analysts to gather information from
numerous sources — ranging from SEC filings to managed investment
documents — and verify its quality.
… Generating
training data was a challenging task in itself because we cover so
many datasets. We created additional tooling to capture contextual
information that had previously gone uncollected. This contextual
information allowed us to train machine learning models and deliver
runtime inferences to an analyst who either accepts or rejects the
output, forming a feedback loop for retraining that further improves
the model.
What
can I say? As I used to tell my Statistics class, “Half the world
is below average.”
Survey:
38% of Americans won’t buy Corona beer ‘under any circumstances’
because of coronavirus outbreak
