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Doug Austin's daily blog covering trends, best practices and case law in electronic discovery, cybersecurity and data privacy.

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  • 1 week ago | ediscoverytoday.com | Doug Austin

    What are prompt leaks? How can your AI workflows cause them? And how can they lead to data breaches? This article discusses them. This article in Help Net Security (The quiet data breach hiding in AI workflows, written by Mirko Zorz and available here) discusses that, as AI becomes embedded in daily business workflows, the risk of data exposure increases, leading to prompt leaks, which are not rare exceptions. They are a natural outcome of how employees use large language models.

  • 1 week ago | ediscoverytoday.com | Doug Austin

    The CLOC Global Institute conference is just three weeks away! Here’s a session involving optimizing the left side of the EDRM Model!The annual conference conducted by the Corporate Legal Operations Consortium (CLOC) is the CLOC Global Institute. This year, it’s being conducted at the Aria in Las Vegas from Monday, May 5th to Thursday, May 8th. On Tuesday, May 6th at 8am PT, Cloudficient will be conducting a breakfast roundtable titled: Foundational eDiscovery: Optimizing the Left Side of EDRM.

  • 1 week ago | jdsupra.com | Doug Austin |Mary Kate Mack |Tom O'Connor

    eDiscovery case law disputes are in full bloom! In our April 2025 monthly webinar of cases covered by the eDiscovery Today blog we will discuss disputes related to proportionality of discovery requests, lack of cooperation and Court response, search term dispute in AI copyright case, in camera review of privilege determinations, privileged documents possessed by third party, and discovery extensions run amok! Join Doug Austin, Editor of eDiscovery Today, Mary Mack, CEO of EDRM, Tom O’Connor,...

  • 1 week ago | ediscoverytoday.com | Doug Austin

    Last week, OpenAI announced an expansion of ChatGPT’s customization and memory capabilities. So, I decided to see how ChatGPT describes me. I covered this in last week’s Kitchen Sink and promised I would have more to say about it. For some users, ChatGPT will now be able to remember information from the full breadth of their prior conversations with it and adjust its responses based on that information.

  • 1 week ago | ediscoverytoday.com | Doug Austin

    Here’s the kitchen sink for April 11, 2025 of ten stories that I didn’t get to this week – with another brand-new meme from Gates Dogfish!Why “the kitchen sink”? Find out here! 🙂The Kitchen Sink is even better when you can include a brand-new eDiscovery meme courtesy of Gates Dogfish, the meme channel dedicated to eDiscovery people and created by Aaron Patton.

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eDiscovery Today
eDiscovery Today @TodayEdiscovery
22 Apr 25

Oh, please! 😉 #openai CEO #samaltman says that using polite language like “please” and “thank you” to #chatgpt is costing them millions of dollars. More here on what it's costing us! https://t.co/I5o3Cm7rrc #genai #environment #industrytrends

eDiscovery Today
eDiscovery Today @TodayEdiscovery
22 Apr 25

What happens to the data for departed employees? Join us for tomorrow’s @acedsonline #webinar at 1pm ET where we will discuss #bestpractices for #digital #forensics in departed employee cases! https://t.co/g43eGLPtXM S2|DATA #ediscovery #litigation #investigations

eDiscovery Today
eDiscovery Today @TodayEdiscovery
21 Apr 25

I’ll bet most of you don’t have to deal with 90,000+ email mailboxes in your archives! Here’s how S2|DATA worked with @FTITech to reduce it 97% to 3K! More here on how they did it! https://t.co/F6oDAT5hwX #email #dataremediation #informationgovernance #legacydata