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  1. LAWYERS UNEASY AS AI NOTE-TAKERS MINGLE IN MEETINGS

    Lawyers worry about AI note-takers storing sensitive data outside the US, risking client confidentiality and legal privilege. What happens next?

    #AINews, #LegalTech, #Confidentiality, #AttorneyClientPrivilege, #DataSecurity

    newsletter.tf/ai-note-takers-l

  2. AI note-takers are raising concerns for lawyers. Many apps store data on third-party servers, potentially outside the US, which is a big worry for keeping client secrets safe.

    #AINews, #LegalTech, #Confidentiality, #AttorneyClientPrivilege, #DataSecurity
    newsletter.tf/ai-note-takers-l

  3. The police have been quick act when their computers have been used to find information about people in the past - defendants and complainants. Now this has happened I wonder whether we will see anything more than a weak apology?

    ‘She added that intimate images, as well as the contact details of her friends and family, were handed over to the person she had accused of a crime.’

    bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq8g9e

    #Police #Scotlands #Confidentiality

  4. A quotation from Horace

    To go on with my advice (that is, supposing
    You need advice from me): Be careful about
    The things you say and the people to whom you say them.
    Avoid the man who asks too many questions.
    No question but he’ll be a teller of tales;
    An ear that eager can’t keep a secret for long,
    And once a word slips out it won’t come back.
     
    [Protinus ut moneam (si quid monitoris eges tu)
    quid de quoque viro et cui dicas, saepe videto,
    percontatorem fugito: nam garrulus idem est,
    nec retinent patulae commissa fideliter aures,
    et semel emissum volat irrevocabile verbum.]

    Horace (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
    Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 1, ep. 18 “Lollius,” l. 67ff (1.18.67-71) (20 BC) [tr. Ferry (2001)]

    More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/20802/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #horace #caution #circumspection #confidence #confidentiality #discretion #gossip #hearsay #informer #prattle #prudence #secrecy #secret #tattle #trustworthiness

  5. A quotation from Horace

    To go on with my advice (that is, supposing
    You need advice from me): Be careful about
    The things you say and the people to whom you say them.
    Avoid the man who asks too many questions.
    No question but he’ll be a teller of tales;
    An ear that eager can’t keep a secret for long,
    And once a word slips out it won’t come back.
     
    [Protinus ut moneam (si quid monitoris eges tu)
    quid de quoque viro et cui dicas, saepe videto,
    percontatorem fugito: nam garrulus idem est,
    nec retinent patulae commissa fideliter aures,
    et semel emissum volat irrevocabile verbum.]

    Horace (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
    Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 1, ep. 18 “Lollius,” l. 67ff (1.18.67-71) (20 BC) [tr. Ferry (2001)]

    More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/20802/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #horace #caution #circumspection #confidence #confidentiality #discretion #gossip #hearsay #informer #prattle #prudence #secrecy #secret #tattle #trustworthiness

  6. You like Signal for it's outstanding #confidentiality? Fine!

    You like Threema, since it's safe, it's from #Switzerland, and #ElsbethSigmund as #Heidi was your #childhoodCrush? Great!

    You like Whatsapp, because your friends are there? I don't blame you!

    But 𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞 don't claim, that any of those #centralServices would support #digitalAutonomy, #digitalIndependence, #digitalSovereignty. They have their merits, but they still are #walledGardens.

    #instantMessaging

  7. Comment on DHS Records Modification

    We received notice from Restore the Fourth about a comment period on a DHS change to the agency’s record system. Disturbingly, they have already made the change, but now are asking for retroactive approval. Sorry, no approval from us!

    There are just 3 days left to comment, so have your say at this link.

    Here is the text of Restore the Fourth’s e-mail announcing the comment period, which I sadly did not notice days ago when it was sent:

    US Citizenship and Immigration Services (“USCIS”), for the first time, has begun pooling data from DHS, the Social Security Administration, the IRS and state voter rolls, to generate a list of US citizens in its “Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE)” database.

    They have begun doing this without notifying the American public of this change in practice, and without offering an opportunity before they began for people to comment, violating the National Privacy Act of 1974. That Act, responding to Watergate, intentionally siloed federal datasets, preventing different federal agencies from sharing data except in very specific cases where justification and notification of the subject of the “investigation” is required.

    Without that siloing, the government can go fishing across all of government to find anything that a pre-selected person has done wrong; and doing that violates the Fourth Amendment.

    What USCIS is doing now is asking for public comment on these changes that have already happened, in order to get some sort of retrospective blessing and insulate themselves from legal challenges. We don’t bless it. We urge you to write comments objecting to it.

    Below is the Restore the Fourth suggested e-mail with a list of talking points; use one or more, paraphrase, or write your own comment:
    • I oppose the change that DHS/USCIS has implemented to the US Citizenship and Immigration Service’s (USCIS’) Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) database. Pooling data from DHS, the Social Security Administration, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), and state voter data and other sources violates the National Data Privacy Act of 1974. The fact that DHS/USCIS is belatedly asking for comment about the changes that it has already implemented by accessing data from other federal agency databases in order to gather additional information on immigrants in violation of the National Data Privacy Act is deeply troubling because many Americans would have opposed this change had they been consulted ahead of the change, as the Act requires.
    • The National Privacy Act of 1974 created silos in order to prevent different federal agencies from sharing data except in very specific cases, and in those cases justification and notification of the subject of the “investigation” is required. Enacted in the aftermath of Watergate, the National Privacy Act was designed to protect Americans from investigations where the government is fishing for evidence that someone has committed a crime with no predicate based on probable cause that they have done anything criminal. Access by any agency to another agency’s data without probable cause to see specific data on a suspect is illegal in order to protect all of us, regardless of our political party or our immigration status. Every resident of the U.S. is entitled to the protections enshrined by the Fourth Amendment of our Constitution.
    • The legal justification provided by DHS in its SORN for its merger of federal databases is a 1999 opinion in which the Department of Justice limited the kinds of restrictions agencies could put on sharing data with law enforcement. It provides for the lawful disclosure of citizenship- or immigration-related information, but it does not grant the Social Security Administration the authority to disclose information without adhering to the requirements of the Privacy Act. 
    • The repurposing of data from different agencies is also dangerous because different people’s records may be incorrectly linked together because of a name misspelling or even a failure to update a name change.
    • DHS/ICIS has implemented additional changes to normal practices as part of its consolidation. Until recently there was no way to deactivate a person’s Social Security number and prevent them from receiving benefits unless there was documentation of their death. Under SAVE, DHS now uses a special indicator code to flag what it considers questionable data or special circumstances concerning an application for an SSN. This allows DHS, without any form of review, to terminate someone’s Social Security benefit. In one case earlier this year when the Social Security Administration under DOGE accidentally declared an 82-year-old man dead (see https://www.livenowfox.com/news/seattle-man-social-security-error), he lost his Social Security benefits, Medicare coverage, and even access to his bank fund. Since in the system being implemented by DHS there will be challenges in matching up names across various databases, the risk of accidental terminations of benefits is heightened.
    • In 2023, a lawyer from the Social Security Administration wrote to the Fair Elections Center that “while SSA records provide an indication of citizenship, they do not provide definitive information on U.S. citizenship,” so it is very concerning that SSA data can now be used to eliminate Americans from voter rolls without further verification.
    • Until now, undocumented Immigrants who lawfully paid federal taxes on their earnings using an Individual taxpayer identification number (ITIN) were promised that their personal information would remain confidential. DHS access to the IRS database completely undermines this protection, making it much less likely that they will file. This reduces government revenue and will result in increased taxes for the rest of us.
    • We are seeing more frequent and broader hacking operations affecting federal agencies by foreign states and other actors (see https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-charges-12-chinese-contract-hackers-and-law-enforcement-officers-global and https://www.reuters.com/technology/cybersecurity/us-treasurys-workstations-hacked-cyberattack-by-china-afp-reports-2024-12-30/ and https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/The-OPM-Data-Breach-How-the-Government-Jeopardized-Our-National-Security-for-More-than-a-Generation.pdf). By combining databases as DHS/USCIS is doing, hundreds of millions of Americans’ data may be compromised by hackers.
    • For all of these reasons, I ask DHS/USCIS to terminate the changes to the SAVE program.

    #confidentiality #data #dataSilos #dhs #hacking #immigration #irs #nationalDataPrivacyActOf1974 #privacy #recordKeeping #repurposingData #save #socialSecurity #ssa #systemicAlienVerificationForEntitlements #uscis

  8. I am astonished to still see colleagues offering programs with FB and Whatsapp "community" elements, in 2025!
    Nope, nope, nope.

    Hopefully this will wake my colleagues up. Ours is a profession requiring deep trust and confidentiality. Meta products do not allow this.

    (Oh, and: Meta consuming all their users' #AI transcripts and chatbot prompts!)

    😱😖

    #iLoveMyJob #lifeCoach #privacy #confidentiality

    Thanks, @PhilipTheBucket quokk.au/c/[email protected]

  9. A quotation from Eleanor Roosevelt

       I have never liked the idea of an Un-American Activities Committee. I have always thought that a strong democracy should stand by its fundamental beliefs and that a citizen of the United States should be considered innocent until he is proved guilty.
       If he is employed in a government position where he has access to secret and important papers, then for the sake of security he must undergo some special tests. However, I doubt whether the loyalty test really adds much to our safety, since no Communist would hesitate to sign it and he would be in good standing until he was proved guilty. So it seems to me that we might as well do away with a test which is almost an insult to any loyal American citizen.

    Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) First Lady of the US (1933-45), politician, diplomat, activist
    Column (1947-10-29), “My Day”

    More info about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-eleanor/80…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #eleanorroosevelt #confidentiality #innocence #loyalty #loyaltyoath #RedScare #spy

  10. I'm torn, should we file this under - You can't Fix Stupid, or is this just the latest turn in DoJ Bizzaro World?

    Interim U.S. attorney Halligan reaches out to reporter and mentioned grand jury matters - which are supposed to be completely confidential under federal law. lawfaremedia.org/article/anna- #DoJ #FederalProsecutors #JamesIndicment #Indictment #Prosecution #Confidentiality #GrandJury

  11. I'm torn, should we file this under - You can't Fix Stupid, or is this just the latest turn in DoJ Bizzaro World?

    Interim U.S. attorney Halligan reaches out to reporter and mentioned grand jury matters - which are supposed to be completely confidential under federal law. lawfaremedia.org/article/anna- #DoJ #FederalProsecutors #JamesIndicment #Indictment #Prosecution #Confidentiality #GrandJury

  12. I'm torn, should we file this under - You can't Fix Stupid, or is this just the latest turn in DoJ Bizzaro World?

    Interim U.S. attorney Halligan reaches out to reporter and mentioned grand jury matters - which are supposed to be completely confidential under federal law. lawfaremedia.org/article/anna- #DoJ #FederalProsecutors #JamesIndicment #Indictment #Prosecution #Confidentiality #GrandJury

  13. I'm torn, should we file this under - You can't Fix Stupid, or is this just the latest turn in DoJ Bizzaro World?

    Interim U.S. attorney Halligan reaches out to reporter and mentioned grand jury matters - which are supposed to be completely confidential under federal law. lawfaremedia.org/article/anna-

  14. FCC: The only agency that believes "confidential" means "post for all to see" 📢🔍. If you thought keeping secrets was hard, try handing them to the #FCC for safekeeping 😂. Who knew "oops" was part of their official playbook? 🙈📄
    engadget.com/big-tech/fcc-acci #Confessions #Confidentiality #Fails #Privacy #Issues #Government #Oversight #HackerNews #ngated

  15. After years of dealing with Google's increasing ads and privacy concerns, I discovered Kagi — a premium search engine that puts users first with no tracking, no ads, and genuinely better results. It's transformed my daily workflow by offering personalized search control, AI-powered tools, and complete privacy protection that makes the subscription fee worth every penny.

    www.kiledjian.com/main/2025/9/17/why-i-moved-away-from-google-search-and-what-i-use-instead

    #NotAnAd #NotSponsored #Tech #Search #Privacy #Security #confidentiality #AI #ML #Web #ChatGPT #Anthropic #Google #GoogleGemini

  16. How to properly share files online?

    Need to send a file to a correspondent? Here are the mistakes to avoid, and the free best practices to follow for simple and secure sending!

    ikacode.com/en/how-to-properly

  17. #WhatsApp kann serverseitig beliebige Kontakte zu Deinen Gruppen hinzufügen. WhatsApp kennt Deine Gruppen und die anderen Mitglieder. Namen, Bilder und Beschreibungen Deiner Gruppen sind nicht Ende-zu-Ende verschlüsselt. Mutterfirma Meta wird auch diese Informationen sicherlich auswerten.

    Via @dbrgn bei LinkedIn (linkedin.com/posts/activity-73)

    From: @arstechnica
    mastodon.social/@arstechnica@m

    #messenger #verschlüsselung #gruppenchat #groupmessages #confidentiality #Security #privacy #Privatsphäre #Vertraulichkeit #signal #threema

  18. "What happens when we put love and intimacy at the center of our understanding of privacy, and what are the consequences of their disavowal, in favor of a more familiar technocratic definition of privacy-as-absense? What role does our deep desire for love and belonging, and our concomitant fear of shame and rejection, have to do with the (mis)direction of tech capital and the current, warped shape of the tech industry and its products?"

    Enjoy the clarity of 40 minutes with @Mer__edith: media.ccc.de/v/38c3-feelings-a

    #desire #confidentiality #techIndustry #liberation #surveillance #tech #intimacy #love #confidentiality #personalSafety #communitySafety #security #protection #dataProtection #dataGovernance #ruleOfLaw #care #safety #security #dataPrivacy

  19. Файл .DS_Store: Подарок для исследователя и головная боль для владельца сайта

    .DS_Store (Desktop Services Store) — это скрытый файл, создаваемый операционной системой macOS для хранения метаданных о папке. Он используется Finder для записи таких параметров, как расположение значков, порядок сортировки, выбранный вид (иконки, список и т.д.), фон папки и другие настройки интерфейса.

    habr.com/ru/articles/877340/

    #сайт #bugbounty #ds_store #dsstore #macos #missconfiguration #confidentiality #tool #hacking #взлом_сайтов

  20. Файл .DS_Store: Подарок для исследователя и головная боль для владельца сайта

    .DS_Store (Desktop Services Store) — это скрытый файл, создаваемый операционной системой macOS для хранения метаданных о папке. Он используется Finder для записи таких параметров, как расположение значков, порядок сортировки, выбранный вид (иконки, список и т.д.), фон папки и другие настройки интерфейса.

    habr.com/ru/articles/877340/

    #сайт #bugbounty #ds_store #dsstore #macos #missconfiguration #confidentiality #tool #hacking #взлом_сайтов

  21. Файл .DS_Store: Подарок для исследователя и головная боль для владельца сайта

    .DS_Store (Desktop Services Store) — это скрытый файл, создаваемый операционной системой macOS для хранения метаданных о папке. Он используется Finder для записи таких параметров, как расположение значков, порядок сортировки, выбранный вид (иконки, список и т.д.), фон папки и другие настройки интерфейса.

    habr.com/ru/articles/877340/

    #сайт #bugbounty #ds_store #dsstore #macos #missconfiguration #confidentiality #tool #hacking #взлом_сайтов

  22. Файл .DS_Store: Подарок для исследователя и головная боль для владельца сайта

    .DS_Store (Desktop Services Store) — это скрытый файл, создаваемый операционной системой macOS для хранения метаданных о папке. Он используется Finder для записи таких параметров, как расположение значков, порядок сортировки, выбранный вид (иконки, список и т.д.), фон папки и другие настройки интерфейса.

    habr.com/ru/articles/877340/

    #сайт #bugbounty #ds_store #dsstore #macos #missconfiguration #confidentiality #tool #hacking #взлом_сайтов

  23. Note to self - remember his name: Dr Eddie TAN Tung Wee, 43.
    #Singapore #Neurosurgeon who breached patient #data loses wrongful dismissal suit against #SingHealth
    "The council was told tt a data #audit showed Dr Tan had accessed the records of 72 patients on 103 occasions without authorisation fr Jan to Dec 2021. The council #unanimously decided to #dismiss Dr Tan w immediate effect due to his #recalcitrant #databreaches & #blatant disregard for #patient #confidentiality"
    straitstimes.com/singapore/cou

  24. Cybersecurity Basics
    A Bit of Security for November 20, 2024
    Why do we do cybersecurity? Here’s a look at some basic concepts. Listen to this -
    Let me know what you think in the comments below.
    #cybersecuritytips #securitybasics #ISO7498 #confidentiality #integrity #availability #BitofSec
    youtu.be/QZsuT557dMU

  25. #AoIR2024 I picked out the morning sessions to attend virtually for today Thursday. #Resistance #AIJournalism then break. May be hear @ktiidenberg at 9:30 my time then 1 hour later I may attend the Statistics Canada Methodology Symposium on #DataEthics and #Confidentiality here in #Ottawa but virtually too. #TwoConferencesataTime

  26. #AoIR2024 I picked out the morning sessions to attend virtually for today Thursday. #Resistance #AIJournalism then break. May be hear @ktiidenberg at 9:30 my time then 1 hour later I may attend the Statistics Canada Methodology Symposium on #DataEthics and #Confidentiality here in #Ottawa but virtually too. #TwoConferencesataTime