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Since the 2016 presidential election, the term “fake news” has resurfaced in the vocabulary describing our current media landscape. False stories about Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton spread across social media leading up to the election, with over 30 million shares of stories favoring Trump and 8 million shares of stories favoring Clinton on Facebook.…
Continuous developments in machine learning technology carry implications for the way firms of all sizes will manage workloads and business development. Although it has not been as widely accepted in the legal community as in other industries, artificial intelligence (AI) is quickly becoming recognized as a viable tool that can be used to improve the…
On March 23, 2017, two competing personal injury lawyers Scott W. Schiff and Kevin F. Kurgis joined forces to sue a marketing company that was buying their names as keywords in Adwords. The complaint (Schiff et al v. Exclusive Legal Marketing, Inc. et al) was filed in U.S. District Court of Southern Ohio claiming that…
On March 22, the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform held a hearing to review the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s use of facial recognition technology and other programs. Facial recognition technology uses an algorithm to analyze a subject’s facial features, such as length and width of a person’s nose, eyes and ears. Law enforcement…
A Democratic Senator is pushing for a privacy focused overhaul regarding device searches at the border. The suspicious scientist Sidd Bikkannavar, a U.S. born citizen and employee at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, left for a trip to South America on January 15. When he returned two weeks later, the Trump administration’s travel ban was four…
Imagine twelve jurors sitting in the jury box, listening as the defense attorney presents them with imagery of a crime scene, showing various views of the scene and pointing out salient details. But instead of viewing a projection or large prints, they are seeing the evidence through virtual reality goggles strapped to their heads. This…
In a first of its kind case, police ask Amazon for data to help solve a murder. UPDATE, 3/7/2017: Arkansas murder defendant James Bates, charged with murdering a man in his hot tub, has given police permission to review information that may be revealed in his smart home Echo recordings. Police hope to find aural…
While President Trump has outlined his plans for strengthening the nation’s cyber security, his stances on privacy and net neutrality are unclear. However, his newly appointed FCC chair, Ajit Pai, has a consistent track record and is expected to oppose an open internet. In fact, on February 28th, Pai said net neutrality was “a mistake.”…
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