Here’s the kitchen sink for September 19, 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 September 19, 2025 of ten-ish stories that I didn’t get to this week, with a comment from me about each:

We’re up to 376 AI hallucination cases and counting! As I discussed in this post, there’s a site that is tracking AI hallucination cases, so I am showing an updated total weekly here.

I Hate My Friend: And by “friend”, these two Wired authors mean the AI-powered “friend” pendant that is available, which is “always listening to your conversations”. One author stopped wearing it when her colleagues complained (understandably), the other one stopped after the “friend” got snarky with him and complained about his attitude (among other things). With “friends” like this, who needs enemies? 🤣

Court rejects Verizon claim that selling location data without consent is legal: Hey, that’s why I use AT&T – they don’t sell my data, they give it away to cyberhackers! 🤣 Actually, they do, according to the FCC, which fined Verizon, T-Mobile and AT&T for selling customer location data without its users’ consent. All three sued the FCC in different courts, AT&T is the only one that won (in the 5th Circuit). And that’s all I have to say about the FCC. 😉

The Human Core of eDiscovery: Review Services in the Summer 2025 Pricing Survey: After pausing for a week, Rob Robinson has resumed rolling out his pricing findings from his pricing survey, which continues to be the best resources for eDiscovery prices around.

Be Careful You Don’t Become a ‘Quishing’ Victim: What’s “quishing”? It’s mailing random boxes with a QR code that can “whisk you off to phishing sites, swipe your personal data, drain your bank account, or quietly install malware on your phone”. Tips from the FBI to avoid getting scammed are in the article.

How people are using ChatGPT: OpenAI commissioned a study from the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and Harvard economist David Deming, which “draws on a large-scale, privacy-preserving analysis of 1.5 million conversations to track how consumer usage has evolved since ChatGPT’s launch three years ago.” This blog post has summary findings from the 64-page study.

Generative AI at the Frontier of eDiscovery: Pricing Insights from the Summer 2025 Survey: And here are the GenAI pricing results from Rob Robinson’s survey. Don’t get too excited – there are a lot of “Do Not Know/Not Applicable” responses related to GenAI pricing questions, reflecting continued uncertainty (or lack of use) related to GenAI and its pricing.

My Father is a Lawyer – Are My Emails With Him Privileged?: Michael Berman has been all over the Blake Lively/Justin Baldoni case. In his coverage of this ruling on the EDRM blog, he discusses the attempt of a party in the case to claim privilege on communications with her lawyer father. With no attorney-client relationship and no legal advice in the communications, the answer to the above question is “no”.

A New Wrinkle in AI Hallucination Cases: Lawyers Dinged for Failing to Detect Opponent’s Fake Citations: Speaking of hallucinations, Bob Ambrogi is staying on top of the unique cases. This week, he covers this case, where the court declined to order sanctions payable to opposing counsel because they didn’t alert the court to the fabricated citations. Last week, he covered this one, where the court sanctioned the lawyers for their fabricated citations, but offered to suspend those sanctions if the lawyers were willing to take certain specific steps to educate others on their mistakes and how they can learn from them. Wow.

Challenges to Redacted Metadata Privilege Log: Another case from Michael Berman on the EDRM blog – this one about the subject described in the title. You’ll have to read the blog to find out whether the challenges were successful. 😊

Shadow AI is breaking corporate security from within: According to a survey covered by Help Net Security, 71% of organizations were fined in the past year for data breaches or compliance failures. Part of that could be due to 37% of employees using generative tools without approval. Shadow AI is a real problem for organizations today.

Radware Uncovers First Zero-Click, Service-Side Vulnerability in ChatGPT: What better way to let people know about a zero-click vulnerability than with a press release! 🤣 Don’t worry, it was fixed first. No known exposure to customers.

Hope you enjoyed the kitchen sink for September 19, 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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