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January 04, 2023 | Legaltech News

Emojis are ubiquitous today, but they were once brand new communications territory. The differences in how they rendered on different operating systems came to a contentious head thanks to one symbol in particular—the gun emoji.

By David Kalat, BRG

7 minute read

December 01, 2022 | Legaltech News

In the early days of eDiscovery, it was common for incompatible technologies to produce documents containing unreadable characters, or gibberish. Ultimately, Unicode was developed as an industry standard to solve the problem and help lawyers meet court mandates for productions to be made in a readable, useable format.

By David Kalat, BRG

5 minute read

November 02, 2022 | Legaltech News

A 1990s illicit office affair involving a disputed termination and a forged email led to one of the first famous incidences of using metadata and forensic analysis in litigation.

By David Kalat, BRG

6 minute read

October 04, 2022 | Legaltech News

The use of computers for business analytics can trace its origins back to the most unlikely of places: a UK bakery chain in the 1940s.

By David Kalat, BRG

6 minute read

September 19, 2022 | Legaltech News

A law designed to encourage content moderation now gives tech companies broad legal protections for questionable content.

By David Kalat, BRG

6 minute read

August 02, 2022 | Legaltech News

For years, the problem of how to distribute encryption keys before a call seemed like a catch-22. This month's history of cybersecurity shows how that problem was solved with the help of the "session key" and how it eventually became declassified information.

By David Kalat, BRG

5 minute read

July 07, 2022 | Legaltech News

When is a byte not a byte? This month's history of cybersecurity examines the work of data scientists Jacob Ziv and Abraham Lempel, and how their theory of Universal Data Compression started to shrink file sizes.

By David Kalat, BRG

6 minute read

June 08, 2022 | Legaltech News

The origin of the idea of 'cyber' wasn't just about security, but rather ethics and psychology. This month's history of cybersecurity examines the work of American mathematician and physicist Norbert Wiener and the beginnings of 'cybernetics.'

By David Kalat, BRG

6 minute read

May 04, 2022 | Legaltech News

Do you recognize that voice? This month's history of cybersecurity examines the development of voice recognition technology and how it has been applied forensically and in courts.

By David Kalat, BRG

6 minute read

April 04, 2022 | Legaltech News

Did you get today's Wordle? As this month's history of cybersecurity explores, you're engaging in a tradition dating back to Claude Shannon's 'A Mathematical Theory of Communication' and the concept of the bit.

By David Kalat, BRG

6 minute read