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DOJ and DHS issue trade fraud guide as task force tally exceeds $1 billion

The Justice Department and Homeland Security released a joint trade fraud enforcement guide as their task force’s combined tally of recoveries, penalties, forfeitures and charged losses exceeded $1 billion, giving importers and compliance teams a clearer view of federal enforcement priorities.

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AI and Advanced Technologies Must Read

Prompt privacy: new scholarship argues GenAI review instructions are attorney work product

Tara Emory and Maura Grossman argue that GenAI TAR prompts refined through iterative testing can embody attorney work product and should rarely face compelled disclosure, with validation metrics carrying the transparency load instead.

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eDiscovery and Information Governance Must Read

HaystackID earns Band 2 rankings in two 2026 Chambers guides

HaystackID advanced to Band 2 in the 2026 Chambers Crisis & Risk Management Guide and maintained Band 2 in the Chambers Litigation Support Guide, extending a nine-year recognition run. The rankings reflect growing overlap between cyber incident response, privacy review, regulatory disclosure and litigation support, as legal and compliance teams increasingly seek providers that can combine speed, technical depth and defensible workflows under one roof.

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AI and Advanced Technologies Must Read

At LegalTechTalk, the password is blueberry hot dogs

At LegalTechTalk London, HaystackID’s John Wilson and Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas’ Komal Gupta examined how deepfakes, business email compromise, and weak cyber governance can converge into multimillion-dollar losses. Their practical message: rehearse response plans, share cyber risk across functions, and use verbal-only challenge phrases before approving high-risk decisions.

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Data Privacy and Protection Must Read

Europe’s off-channel reckoning: HaystackID bets COMET on a messaging crackdown crossing the Atlantic

HaystackID introduced COMET, a recurring mobile-message capture tool, betting European regulators will press the off-channel enforcement that has cost U.S. firms billions since 2021. The launch anchors a wider European push at LegalTechTalk.

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AI and Advanced Technologies Must Read

When you can’t trust the evidence: deepfakes force a forensic reckoning in Dublin

At the Dublin Tech Summit, two HaystackID forensics leaders argued that deepfakes have broken the 30-year-old integrity test for digital evidence, and laid out a 90-day plan for proving authenticity under the EU AI Act, NIS2, DORA and the proposed Rule 707.

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Must Read Reports and Research

FutureLaw 2026 closes: hard truths, the billable hour, and what gets built next

FutureLaw 2026 closed in Tallinn with the conversation getting harder. Uwais Iqbal’s hard truths from 23,000 adjudications and Chas Rampenthal’s reading of Texas Opinion 705 anchored a day-and-a-half of sessions on predictive justice, productized law, and transnational legal infrastructure.

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Cyber Discovery and Cybersecurity Must Read

A 48-Month Federal Benchmark Resets the Incident-Response Insider Question

Two former cybersecurity professionals, one from Sygnia and one from DigitalMint, were sentenced April 30 to four years each for running BlackCat ransomware against U.S. companies — the first federal prison term in this country for an incident-response and ransomware-negotiation insider conspiracy.

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Cyber Discovery and Cybersecurity Must Read

The DOJ’s Cyber FCA Playbook Is Working as Enforcement Triples and Shows No Signs of Slowing

: The DOJ secured $52 million across nine cybersecurity-related False Claims Act settlements in FY 2025, tripling the prior pace and establishing cyber FCA enforcement as an operational program — with private equity firms, medical device makers, and defense subcontractors now in the crosshairs.

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AI and Advanced Technologies Must Read

FTC’s OkCupid Action Reframes AI Training Data as a Consumer Protection Issue

The FTC’s settlement with Match Group over OkCupid’s undisclosed transfer of three million user photos to AI startup Clarifai marks the first federal enforcement action framing AI training data collection as a consumer protection violation — with no fine but a 20-year compliance leash.

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