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From eDiscovery pricing and buyers to cyberattacks and incident response, the May 2022 edition of the Five Great Reads on Cyber, Data, and Legal Discovery newsletter provides a selection of recent research, reports, and articles to update and inform cybersecurity, information governance, and eDiscovery professionals on cyber, data, and legal discovery.

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According to a recent update from the Institute for the Study of War, Russian occupation authorities announced plans to destroy the Azovstal Steel Plant and turn Mariupol into a resort city, depriving Russia of some of the most important economic benefits it hoped to reap by taking the city in the first place. Azovstal was a major element of Mariupol’s economy before the war because of its unique function as a full-cycle metallurgical complex, the 10,000 jobs associated with production at the plant, the billions of dollars of foreign exchange earnings and taxes it generated, and its production output of 7,000 tons of steel, 6 million tons of iron, and 4.5 million tons of rolled metal, according to the Mariupol City Council.

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The Future of Privacy Forum recently launched a comprehensive Report analyzing case law under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) applied to real-life cases involving Automated Decision Making (ADM). The Report is informed by extensive research covering more than 70 Court judgments, decisions from Data Protection Authorities (DPAs), specific Guidance, and other policy documents issued by regulators. The new Report outlines how national courts and DPAs in the European Union (EU)/European Economic Area (EEA) and the UK have interpreted and applied the relevant EU data protection law provisions on ADM so far – before and after the GDPR became applicable - as well as the notable trends and outliers in this respect.

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Initiated in the winter of 2019 and conducted eight times with 641 individual responses, the semi-annual eDiscovery Pricing Survey provides a mechanism for cyber, data, and legal discovery specialists to share and consider current pricing for selected eDiscovery-centric collection, processing, and review tasks. Today ComplexDiscovery shares the results of the Summer 2022 eDiscovery Pricing survey.

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As borders blur and businesses expand, many companies face accelerating challenges in data protection, privacy, and cross-border transfers. Dealing with each of these areas on its own can be daunting, and addressing each of these areas together can be downright discouraging. However, with a solid understanding of requirements, roles, and responsibilities, information governance and legal discovery professionals can successfully navigate the difficulties of cross-border transfers and translate compliance challenges into business opportunities.

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According to Mike Gamson, CEO of Relativity, "We're energized by the vast benefits of AI and the innovative ways in which our customers are leveraging it to solve key data challenges. We also recognize the risks of deploying AI without putting the proper safeguards in place, and it's something we're taking seriously. Optimizing the potential of AI will require deeply invested, highly skilled subject matter experts who recognize its benefits, clear the way for its adoption, and put guardrails in place to ensure that it's used safely and ethically."

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“As in many other service industries, mobile communication is ubiquitous in the financial sector,” said Goutam Nadella, Chief Product Officer at Smarsh. “Bankers and traders use mobile phones and mobile instant messaging apps, for client communications, for commercial negotiations, to get order confirmations, and to finalize transactions. Unlike email communications, there are significant gaps in how firms capture and monitor mobile communications, which means these companies cannot trace all transactions information exchanged and information delivered over mobile devices. And that means significant regulatory and reputational risk for those firms, especially for voice communications.”

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According to recent updates from the Institute for the Study of War, Ukraine appears to have won the Battle of Kharkiv. Ukrainian forces prevented Russian troops from encircling, let alone seizing Kharkiv, and then expelled them from around the city, as they did to Russian forces attempting to seize Kyiv. Additionally, Russian private military companies are reportedly forming combined units with airborne elements due to significant losses in manpower. Denaturing elite airborne units with mercenaries is shocking, and would be the clearest indication yet that Russia has exhausted its available combat-ready manpower reserves.

The post Tapped Out? Ukraine Conflict Assessments in Maps (May 13 – 16, 2022) appeared first on ComplexDiscovery.

The report "Leaky Forms: A Study of Email and Password Exfiltration Before Form Submission" notes that email addresses—or identifiers derived from them—are known to be used by data brokers and advertisers for cross-site, cross-platform, and persistent identification of potentially unsuspecting individuals. In order to find out whether access to online forms is misused by online trackers, the authors of this new report present a measurement of email and password collection that occur before form submission on the top 100K websites.

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“The Complete Enterprise platform brings together our award-winning expertise, innovative technology – proprietary and via partnerships, and comprehensive talent solutions to provide a uniform offering and experience under one brand that is designed to serve clients with their current challenges and evolve over time with their business needs,” said Robb Hern, Senior Vice President of Enterprise Legal Services at Consilio.

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