Category «Legal Technology»

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, February 28, 2026

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. Five highlights from this week: DHS Wants a Single Search Engine to Flag Faces and Fingerprints Across Agencies; LinkedIn ID verification data will likely be shared with third parties; AI controls are coming to Firefox; Meta Employee Shares OpenClaw Email-Deletion Nightmare; and This App Warns You if Someone Is Wearing Smart Glasses Nearby.

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Subjects: AI, Civil Liberties, Cryptocurrency, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Economy, Email Security, Financial System, Legal Research, Search Engines, Social Media

Don’t Build Your House on Rented Land: Why Writers Should Avoid Platform Dependency and How They Can Do So

Over the past several years, platforms such as Substack have become increasingly attractive to writers seeking to establish themselves as an independent voice. The appeal is obvious. They are easy to use and can turn a writer into a publisher overnight. No web developer is required. Payment systems are integrated, and distribution is built in. Substack markets itself as a refuge for writers who prefer autonomy to corporate hierarchy. There are good reasons to use Substack and similar businesses, but there are also risks. These platforms are not inherently malign, but they are fragile. This article by Jerry Lawson will focus on Substack, the currently trendy platform, but the key ideas apply to many other platforms.

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Subjects: Communications, KM, Legal Research, Social Media, Technology Trends

What the Science Says About Hallucinations in Legal Research

Over the past three years, researchers have published dozens of studies examining exactly when and why AI fails at legal tasks—and the patterns are becoming clearer. The research is clear: AI hallucinations in legal work are real, measurable, and follow predictable patterns. Rebecca Fordon evaluates the data and research that documents six critical patterns lawyers must understand to make sound, actionable and effective decisions about using AI.

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Subjects: AI, KM, Legal Research, Legal Research Training, Legal Technology

AI Under the Hood

Knowing the difference between a general AI tool and one trained on specific sources can mean the difference between getting an accurate answer and becoming quickly frustrated with outcomes that either don’t answer the question thoroughly or answer the question in a confused mixture of fact and fiction. While not always clear, the data that lies behind the GenAI tool is just as important to consider as the user interface or the cost. Without trustworthy or relevant underlying information, the resulting AI-generated output will be less helpful or less trusted and result in inefficiencies as lawyers and staff work to fill the gaps in the GenAI’s response. Considering these factors, Kristopher Turner’s article identifies how and why a retrieval augmented generation (RAG) can give focused and highly specific answers related to one area that someone needs to quickly understand.

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Subjects: AI, KM, Legal Education, Legal Profession, Legal Research, Legal Technology, Search Engines

The greatest risk of AI in higher education isn’t cheating – it’s the erosion of learning itself

Over the past eight years Nir Eisikovits and Jacob Burley have been studying the moral implications of pervasive engagement with AI as part of a joint research project between the Applied Ethics Center at UMass Boston and the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies. In a recent white paper, we argue that as AI systems become more autonomous, the ethical stakes of AI use in higher ed rise, as do its potential consequences.

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Subjects: AI, Education, Ethics, KM

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, February 21, 2026

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. Five highlights from this week: Dems Want to Ban Surveillance Pricing at Big Grocery Stores; I Verified My LinkedIn Identity. Here’s What I Actually Handed Over; As AI leaps forward, concern rises that innovation is leaving safety behind; Chinese telecom hackers likely holding stolen data ‘in perpetuity’ for later attempts, FBI official says; and Good Luck Banning Smart Glasses.

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Subjects: AI, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, E-Government, Privacy, Social Media, Technology Trends

Agentic AI in the Wild: Lessons from Moltbook and OpenClaw

Tools like OpenClaw – the open-source AI agent that underpins Moltbook – are only possible because of the rapidly developing, and publicly available, capabilities of frontier large language models such as Anthropic’s Claude. Ardi Janjeva, Carolyn Ashurst and Rick Hennessy of the Alan Turing Institute discuss how the recent Moltbook frenzy illustrates the interaction between these capabilities and human behaviour is far from straightforward: users both deliberately and inadvertently behave in ways that significantly amplify the risks that applications like OpenClaw introduce.

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Subjects: AI, KM, Legal Research

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, February 7, 2026

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. Five highlights from this week: Why You Should Stop Using Face ID Right Now; A community organizer’s guide to Signal group chats; EU Orders TikTok to Fix “Addictive Design” or Face Billions in Fines; Cloud storage payment scam floods inboxes with fake renewals; and Gartner: Tighten Up AI Governance or Face the Consequences.

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Subjects: AI, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, E-Commerce, Email Security, Social Media, Technology Trends

LLRX January 2026 Issue – Articles and Columns

Attacks against the International Criminal Court: Who cares about victims of atrocity crimes? – The attacks against the ICC are part of a wholesale U.S. assault on international legal norms and institutions since the 20 January 2025 inauguration of President Donald J. Trump. Exactly a year later, Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney made a blunt …

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Subjects: KM

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, January 31, 2026

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. Six highlights from this week: Google Is Accused of Burying $700M Settlement Emails — They’re Landing in Spam Folders; How ICE is using facial recognition in Minnesota; US Version of TikTok off to Bumpy Start; Competitors Surge; Google ties AI Search to Gmail and Photos, raising new privacy questions; and Activists Say Ring Cameras Are Being Used by ICE.

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Subjects: AI, Computer Security, Cryptocurrencies, Cryptocurrency, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Email Security, Financial System, Legal Research, Privacy
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