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.
When you can’t trust the evidence: deepfakes force a forensic reckoning in Dublin Read More »
“Ireland is the de facto regulator of AI globally.” Dr. Barry Scannell said it flatly, early on the main stage of the Dublin Tech Summit. The claim framed the discussion that followed, even as the panel turned quickly to the
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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.
FutureLaw 2026 closes: hard truths, the billable hour, and what gets built next Read More »
Day One at FutureLaw 2026 moved from morning AI regulation debates to afternoon construction work: trust stacks, legal ops, surveillance limits, pilot economics, infrastructure standards, and the legal-education gap.
FutureLaw 2026 Day One, After Lunch: From Regulating AI to Building With It Read More »
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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: 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.
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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AI-assisted privilege review is no longer theoretical. This article unpacks the Legalweek 2026 discussion on defensible AI workflows, privilege log generation, Rule 502(d) protections, and the legal risks of using consumer AI tools in high-stakes discovery.
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The joke writes itself: a Hollywood actress walks into a legal technology conference and tells lawyers what they already know. Except that is not what happened at Legalweek 2026 — and what did happen was more useful than that.
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AI copyright cases are becoming a proving ground for disciplined discovery. Recent rulings in Google Generative AI and Onan v. Databricks underscore that courts will block late-breaking deposition requests, new custodians, and expansive repository searches when parties can’t show timely diligence, proportionality, and non-duplication. The takeaway for litigators and eDiscovery teams: identify custodians and data sources early, use modern analytics to shorten the gap between production and insight, and proactively press—then move—before the cutoff makes relief unreachable.
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Employee turnover can undo even a well-drafted legal hold—especially when company-issued phones and tablets aren’t tracked or returned. Drawing from In re Local TV Advertising Antitrust Litigation, Phil Favro explains how device return policies, custodian tracking, and practical governance controls can preserve text messages, reduce spoliation risk, and improve legal hold defensibility.
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A new White House report draws striking parallels between today’s AI surge and the Industrial Revolution—warning that the next great global economic divide may already be underway. For legal, compliance, and cybersecurity professionals, understanding where your organization sits on the AI maturity curve is no longer optional.
White House AI Report: A Wake-Up Call for Legal Tech Read More »
