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Daily Archives: August 3, 2021

Master Social Media Without Sacrificing Your Privacy

PC Magazine: “Some people have no filter. They’ll conduct the most personal phone conversations at maximum volume, on the subway. Or they’ll regale perfect strangers with the excruciating details of their latest medical procedures. Most of us, though, have a better idea of how to maintain privacy for ourselves and our friends. But do you take the same attitude on social media? It’s easy to notice that you’re too loud on the phone in public, less easy to realize that your se settings let any schmo read your social media posts. And yet, protecting your privacy on social media is important, in more ways than you may realize. Perhaps you already know this. Perhaps you keep your privacy settings tuned and never overshare on social media. How about your friends? If they’re careless about their own privacy, their heedlessness can slop over and affect you. Show them this article—post it on your wall! Maybe they’ll shape up…”

65 websites to waste your time on

Mashable: “The internet has changed the world in myriad ways — it has reshaped politics, retail, media, to name a few things — but it has entirely redefined the way people waste time. If the internet was ever good for anything, in fact, my goodness it it fantastic for wasting time or killing boredom. But… Continue Reading

Federal Cybersecurity: America’s Data Still at Risk

United States Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, Rob Portman, Ranking Member. Gary Peters, Chairman. Federal Cybersecurity: America’s Data Still at Risk. August 2021: “..The current state of cyber espionage. In the past two years, state-sponsored hackers have perpetrated some of the largest and most damaging cyber-attacks in our history. In December 2020, we… Continue Reading

Why the CDC changed its mask guidance, according to an epidemiologist

Vox: “An expert explains why vaccinated people should wear masks in some indoor settings. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has now done an about-face on its masking guidelines for people vaccinated against Covid-19. Back in May, the agency said that people who are fully vaccinated against Covid-19 could “resume activities without wearing masks… Continue Reading

Explainable artificial intelligence, lawyer’s perspective

Explainable artificial intelligence, lawyer’s perspective. Authors: Łukasz Górski, Shashishekar Ramakrishna ICAIL ’21: Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law June 2021 Pages 60–68https://doi.org/10.1145/3462757.3466145. Published:21 June 2021 “Explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) is a research direction that was already put under scrutiny, in particular in the AI&Law community. Whilst there were notable developments… Continue Reading

A dataset for evaluating legal question answering on private international law

A dataset for evaluating legal question answering on private international law. Francesco Sovrano, Monica Palmirani, Biagio Distefano,Salvatore Sapienza, Fabio Vitali. ICAIL ’21: Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law June 2021 Pages 230–234 https://doi.org/10.1145/3462757.3466094. Published: 21 June 2021. “International Private Law (PIL) is a complex legal domain that presents frequent conflicting… Continue Reading