Here’s the kitchen sink for February 14, 2025 of ten stories that I didn’t get to this week – with another brand-new meme from Gates Dogfish!

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Here is the kitchen sink for February 14, 2025 of ten stories that I didn’t get to this week, with a comment from me about each:

A Compendium of Legal Ethics Opinions on Gen AI (As Compiled by – You Guessed It – Gen AI): Bob Ambrogi plays with Deep Research and gets it to provide a (admittedly unverified as to completeness) list of 13 legal ethics opinions on GenAI. Very cool.

Streamlining eDiscovery: The Case for Supervised Collections and Custodial Interviews: Great article from Alison A. Grounds, Jason Lichter, and Jennifer M. Doran at Troutman Pepper Locke about considerations for custodial interviews – a highly underdiscussed part of the eDiscovery process.

Microsoft Study Finds AI Makes Human Cognition “Atrophied and Unprepared”: In other words, it’s making us dumber. That explanation is for those of you who are using too much AI. 🤣

Sweden swapped books for computers in 2009. Now, they’re spending millions to bring them back: Looks like the Swedish are doing something about that. After being one of the countries to replace textbooks with computers in 2009, they’re investing €104M to bring textbooks back. They’re not completely ditching the electronics but looking to find the right approach to include both modern and classic learning methods to support children’s needs. Good move!

Another Approach to Drafting and Discovery of Litigation Hold Notices: Michael Berman covers this case on the EDRM blog, where the court held that litigation hold notices were privileged. Somewhat like – and unlike – this case I covered earlier this week, where the Court found the litigation hold notices were privileged, but still compelled production of information from them. Michael proposes his own approach to discovery of litigation hold notices at the bottom of the post.

The U.K. Orders Apple to Undermine Encryption, Raising Global Privacy Concerns: Rob Robinson covers the UK government’s efforts to access encrypted data through a Technical Capability Notice (TCN) issued to Apple under the Investigatory Powers Act. The directive mandates Apple to create a backdoor to iCloud backups, “raising significant privacy concerns and ethical challenges, particularly within legal and corporate sectors”. It will be interesting to see Apple’s response to this.

Google Chrome may soon use “AI” to replace compromised passwords: Google’s Chrome browser might soon get a useful security upgrade: detecting passwords used in data breaches and then generating and storing a better replacement. This article discusses how it works and how you can see how it works (hint: you need to download a Canary version of Chrome).

Hill Dickinson restricts access to Gen AI tools following ‘significant increase in usage’: The firm, which employs more than 1,000 people across offices in the UK, Europe and Asia, detected around 32,000 hits to ChatGPT over a seven-day period in January and February. So much for data privacy concerns on public AI platforms! Going forward, staff must be given approval from the firm to access publicly available Gen AI platforms.

How Did DeepSeek Build Its A.I. With Less Money?: I’ll reiterate that I wouldn’t touch DeepSeek with a 39 and a half foot pole. But we can learn some lessons from what they did well that might be applied in an eventual model that is more secure.

AI summaries turn real news into nonsense, BBC finds: I’m shocked, shocked I say! 😉 When you see stats like “51 percent of all AI answers to questions about the news were judged to have significant issues of some form”, it makes you think twice about reading them. Of course, we’ll soon be too dumb to notice, except in Sweden. 🤣

Over 3 million Fortune 500 employee accounts compromised since 2022: That’s one in ten employees, with each account exposed 5.7 times on average. Sigh.

Hope you enjoyed the kitchen sink for February 14, 2025! Back next week with another edition!

So, what do you think? Which story is your favorite one? Please share any comments you might have or if you’d like to know more about a particular topic.

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