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Fourth Circuit Publicly Admonishes Lawyer for "Citations to Nonexistent Judicial Opinions"

From yesterday's decision in In re Nwaubani, from the Fourth Circuit (Judges Marvin Quattlebaum, Allison Rushing, and DeAndrea Gist Benjamin):… The post Fourth Circuit Publicly Admonishes Lawyer for "Citations to Nonexistent Judicial Opinions" appeared first on Reason.com.

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LexisNexis confirms data breach, says hackers hit customer and business info

FulcrumSec leaked roughly 2GB of company data, but LexisNexis says it's old and outdated.

TechRadar

You may not know them, but they certainly know you: Inside the dangerous and shady business of data brokers

Even if you don't know data brokers, they almost certainly know you. With no nationwide U.S. privacy laws, experts warn there are often minimal safeguards against motivated people exploiting them for ill ends. Io Dodds reports

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The “Black Box” Betrayal: How Your Car is Reporting Your 2026 Driving Habits to Your Insurance Company

You might consider yourself a safe driver, but your car’s internal computer may have a different opinion. In January 2026, a massive privacy scandal has officially reached its boiling point. For years, major automakers have been quietly collecting granular data on your driving habits, from how hard you hit the…

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Reminder: AI Might Have Hallucinated Quotations Even if You've Confirmed the Citations

"Lead counsel reviewed the cited cases in LexisNexis and confirmed that they were actual decisions relevant to the legal issues in this matter. However, the quotations included in the initial draft of the Memorandum were not independently verified against the official opinions word-for-word."

Reason

LexisNexis exec says it’s ‘a matter of time’ before attorneys lose their licenses over using open-source AI pilots in court

AI is rapidly being adopted into law firms across the country, and it’s raising stakes for attorneys and their clients alike.

Fortune

Your Online Security: 10 Things You Should Know

Online security is more tenuous given the rise of AI. Arm yourself against internet criminals with these tips to strengthen online security.

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Over 364,000 people have personal info leaked following hack on data broker LexisNexis

Hundreds of thousands have been affected in the leak.

TechRadar

Is Your Smartphone Making Your Car Insurance More Expensive?

Apps that track your location and behavior could be quietly raising your rates — even if they're not from your insurance company.

Kiplinger

Most Tech Firms Won't Disclose if They'll Help Deport Immigrants by Providing Private Data, Study Finds

The Intercept asked more than three dozen companies but only four were willing to comment

Latin Times

What Stanford study of AI copilots really says about the future of LLMs

Yes, RAG reduces hallucinations. No, it doesn't end them. But that doesn't mean AI copilots are doomed.

Fortune

Fisker On The Brink As NYSE De-Lists Stock Over 'Abnormally Low' Price

Today on Critical Materials: Fisker is delisted from the NYSE, Toyota could build an electric Hilux in 2025, and GM will no longer share customer driving data.

InsideEVs

Stop Your Car From Spying on You

Modern cars are smartphones on wheels, but with less protection for your data.

Reason

Automakers May Be Sharing Your Driver Data With Insurance Brokers

Today on Critical Materials: Automakers share data with insurance, Cybertruck deliveries prioritized to shareholders, and Volvo to cut charge times by 30%.

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Amazon’s big bet on Anthropic looks even more important after the OpenAI drama

Big Tech cloud providers are racing to arm themselves in the generative AI chatbot wars.

Salon

Biden's excutive order on AI explained

Programs like ChatGPT are largely unregulated. The Biden Admin is attempting to change that but will it work?

Reason

Sanctions Issued in Case Where Lawyers Cited ChatGPT-Hallucinated Precedents

From today's opinion in Mata v. Avianca, Inc., by Judge Kevin Castel (S.D.N.Y.), which stems from an incident blogged about here last month (and see this follow-up): In researching and drafting court submissions, good lawyers appropriately obtain assistance from junior lawyers, law students, contract lawyers, legal encyclopedias and databases such…

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A Lawyer's Filing "Is Replete with Citations to Non-Existent Cases"—Thanks, ChatGPT?

The lawyer's colleague, who drafted the filing, says he relied on ChatGPT to draft the filing and provide the text of the cases, and neglected to check them.

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Calls for Credit References Collaboration to Prevent Financial Fraud in the Middle East

Credit reference agencies and financial institutions should cooperate to prevent financial fraud in the Middle East, especially the Gulf countries, which have become one of the world's important financial and economic centers, according to a financial expert. Comprehensive framework Director of Financial Crime Compliance and Payments, LexisNexis Risk Solutions, Jonny…

The Independent UK

Immigration advocates sue LexisNexis over personal data

Immigration advocates are accusing the data broker LexisNexis Risk Solutions of violating Illinois law by collecting and combining extensive personal information and selling it to third parties including federal immigration authorities

Tribune News Service

Halting backdoor government snooping seen as key to data privacy

WASHINGTON — As the House Energy and Commerce Committee approved a federal data privacy bill last week, lawmakers on the House Judiciary Committee were looking to plug a gap in the law that allows government agencies to conduct broad surveillance without obtaining warrants or subpoenas to do so.

Roll Call

Halting backdoor government snooping seen as key to data privacy

Lawmakers say government purchases of data from private companies violates the Fourth Amendment and are looking to close the gap.

The Independent UK

Forty unemployed young people hired after Skill Up Step Up training

The young people are part of the first wave to benefit from the companies who pledged to our campaign

Evening Standard

‘I got my dream role. I’m finally in the right place’

Through our Skill Up Step Up campaign the Evening Standard pledged to get 1,000 unemployed young Londoners into work. David Cohen speaks to two successful candidates

Input

ICE is conducting millions more LexisNexis searches than it admitted to

Immigration and Customs Enforcement says it only uses LexisNexis to research people with "serious criminal backgrounds." Surprise: that's not true.

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