Our thoughts, learning, article curation, and other goings-on.

This week, aside from that little Senate hearing yesterday, privacy has been getting our attention. The UK Information Commissioner’s Office issued the first formal enforcement action under the General Data Protection Regulation and the UK Data Protection Act. The alleged offender? A Canadian data analytics firm that studies data to direct online advertisers to voters. The action demands that the firm stop “processing any personal data of UK or EU citizens obtained from UK political organizations or otherwise for the purposes of data analytics, political campaigning or any other advertising purposes.”

Meanwhile, there was another hearing this week on Capitol Hill that you may not have heard about: privacy experts testified before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation on the possibility of a national privacy law, in the wake of California’s passage of its own data privacy law over the summer.

Legal Industry Happenings:

The DOJ’s Antitrust Division hopes to resolve merger investigations within six months of filing (Paul Weiss)
Text messages may be presumptively discoverable soon (at least in Delaware) (Law.com)
Get ready to meet the world’s first robot lawyer (Reason)
Document review is hard (Above the Law)
The GDPR is having a significant effect on legal holds (Today’s General Counsel)
Analytics can improve eDiscovery (Today’s General Counsel)

Other News of Interest:

Law firms’ blog practices may be contributing to link rot (Real Lawyers)
Some of us are making a huge mistake with our email (Inc.)
One step toward solving the busy crisis (HBR)
What you need to know to build a website (Marketo)
How to form an effective mentorship (New York Times)

What We’re Writing:

Ruminating about the authentication and admissibility of electronic evidence
Trying to figure out how to capture eDiscovery from the new Amazon microwave
Learning about who’s driving legal innovation—and how
Drafting an e-learning course on sustainable disposables
Writing about scams that may affect the older generation

Drop us a line and let us know what you’re up to—we’d love to see how we can help!

Friday scribbles: Sept 28 this week at Scribe