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Introducing Automated Knowledge Discovery from Global EDD Group

December 2, 2011 By Leave a Comment

New Service Applies Advanced Data Mining & Transformaton Technology To Electronic Discovery

Cleveland, Ohio, USA – (02 December 2011) –Global Electronic Discovery & Disclosure Group (“Global EDD Group”), a boutique consulting firm that provides innovative legal technology solutions across the globe, announces the implementation of Automated Knowledge Discovery, a new suite of services that leverages advanced data mining tools to derive critical knowledge from text and structured data, including XML files, databases, spreadsheets, web sites, documents, and emails.

Modern organizations have access to abundant sources of data that contain jewels of useful knowledge.  Emails, web pages, memos, call center transcripts, survey responses, claims notes, legal cases, patent descriptions, research articles, and incident reports – all hold valuable pieces of knowledge that are hard to discover because they are hidden within large volumes of raw data or structured datasets not typically indexed for key term searching.  Overwhelmed by the glut and variety of data, law firms and corporations are seeking new methods to analyze large volumes of structured and unstructured data to not only discover key knowledge, but to create case or review strategy as well.

Automated Knowledge Discovery (“AKD”) enables legal teams to gain valuable insight into large diverse data sets by leveraging intelligent data mining and analysis tools to undertake a range of knowledge discovery tasks, including:

  • Data Source Integration
  • Distinct Text Identification
  • Key Term Linking
  • Text Clustering
  • Entity Extraction
  • Keyword Extraction
  • Phrase Extraction
  • Link Analysis
  • Complex Searching

Automated Knowledge Discovery Services provide valuable insight to any collection of discovery data, far beyond key term browsing typically associated with litigation support systems, many of which simply do not have the ability to process structured data such as SQL databases or “as found” versions of email stores. Additional benefits of AKD Services include:

  • Mobile platform deployable worldwide
  • Fee structure based on time, not volume
  • No long term commitments, user fees or storage fees
  • Compliments, not replaces, current review workflows and systems
  • Ideal platform for data sampling

Law Firms and Corporations interested in learning more about Automated Discovery Services should call +1.888.690.DATA (3282), email info@globaledd.com, or visit http://www.globaleddgroup.com/Data-Analytics/Automated-Knowledge-Discovery.html for additional information. Global EDD Group also provides these services under subcontract to other industry vendors and service providers.

About Global EDD Group

Global Electronic Discovery & Disclosure Group (“Global EDD Group”) was founded with the vision of bridging the wide gap between domestic organizations and their growing national and international legal technology needs. Based in Cleveland, Ohio, USA with a regional office in Singapore, SG, Global EDD Group provides legal technology services for matters with a national or international scope, specializing in remote and onsite services ranging from data identification to document review. Additional information is available by visitinghttp://www.GlobalEDDGroup.com .

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Phone ‘Rootkit’ Maker Carrier IQ May Have Violated Wiretap Law In Millions Of Cases – Forbes

December 2, 2011 By Leave a Comment

“If CarrierIQ has gotten the handset manufactures to install secret software that records keystrokes intended for text messaging and the Internet and are sending some of that information back somewhere, this is very likely a federal wiretap.” he says. “And that gives the people wiretapped the right to sue and provides for significant monetary damages.”

As Eckhart’s analysis of the company’s training videos and the debugging logs on his own HTC Evo handset have shown, Carrier IQ captures every keystroke on a device as well as location and other data, and potentially makes that data available to Carrier IQ’s customers. The video he’s created (below) shows every keystroke being sent to the highly-obscured application on the phone before a call, text message, or Internet data packet is ever communicated beyond the phone. Eckhart has found the application on Samsung, HTC, Nokia and RIM devices, and Carrier IQ claims on its website that it has installed the program on more than 140 million handsets.

Specifically, Ohm points to changes made to the Wiretap Act under the Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986 that forbid acquiring the contents of communications without the users’ consent. “Because this happens with text messages as they’re being sent, a quintessentially streaming form of communication, it seems like exactly the kind of thing the wiretap act is meant to prevent,” he says.  ”When I was at the Justice Department, we definitely prosecuted people for installing software with these kinds of capabilities on personal computers.”

via Phone ‘Rootkit’ Maker Carrier IQ May Have Violated Wiretap Law In Millions Of Cases – Forbes.

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Apple iMessage could hurt mobile carriers | TG Daily

October 10, 2011 By Leave a Comment

When Apple launches iMessage, a free alternative to traditional text messaging, it could have a damaging impact on mobile carriers.

The carriers still charge outrageous fees for texting – as much as 20 cents per message. Of course, anyone who texts regularly most likely has an unlimited texting plan for about $20 per month.

But that $20 is not insignificant when added to all the other line-item charges customers have to deal with these days, and many would prefer to scrap that fee altogether.

After all, there have been alternatives to texting since the last century. Phones with a data plan are able to send instant messages through Google Talk, Skype, AOL Instant Messenger, Windows Live Messenger, and others.

And not to be forgotten, it’s simple to send and received e-mails from pretty much any phone these days.

However, texting remains the only real way to send messages to people through a phone number rather than a sceen name or e-mail address, and they can be sent and received without mobile data.

Apple’s iMessage platform, expected to be revealed this week, cannot offer those amenities, but it will allow users to send messages over Wi-Fi and mobile data networks, with an aesthetic that looks like texting on an iPhone, and with technology that can send the messages instantly.

via Apple iMessage could hurt mobile carriers | TG Daily.

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Which Telecoms Store Your Data the Longest? Secret Memo Tells All | Wired.com

September 28, 2011 By Leave a Comment

The nation’s major mobile-phone providers are keeping a treasure trove of sensitive data on their customers, according to newly-released Justice Department internal memo that for the first time reveals the data retention policies of America’s largest telecoms.

The single-page Department of Justice document, “Retention Periods of Major Cellular Service Providers,” (.pdf) is a guide for law enforcement agencies looking to get information — like customer IP addresses, call logs, text messages and web surfing habits – out of U.S. telecom companies, including AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile and Verizon.

The document, marked “Law Enforcement Use Only” and dated August 2010, illustrates there are some significant differences in how long carriers retain your data.

Verizon, for example, keeps a list of everyone you’ve exchanged text messages with for the past year, according to the document.  But  T-Mobile stores the same data up to five years. It’s 18 months for Sprint, and seven years for AT&T.

That makes Verizon appear to have the most privacy-friendly policy. Except that Verizon is alone in retaining the actual contents of text messages. It allegedly stores the messages for five days, while T-Mobile, AT&T, and Sprint don’t store them at all.

via Which Telecoms Store Your Data the Longest? Secret Memo Tells All | Threat Level | Wired.com.

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Skype to Buy GroupMe Group Messaging Service

August 21, 2011 By Leave a Comment

The group messaging battle just heated up with the announcement Sunday that Skype has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire GroupMe, a group messaging service that will enhance Skype’s ability to facilitate text and photo messaging.

With this acquisition, Skype said in a press release that GroupMe will provide “best-in-class text-based communications and innovative features that enable users to connect, share locations and photos and make plans with their closest ties.”

via Skype to Buy GroupMe Group Messaging Service.

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Informative Graphics Announces Release of Latest Redact-It

May 5, 2011 By 1 Comment

Informative Graphics Corporation (IGC) (www.infograph.com), a leader in content viewing, collaboration and redaction technology, today officially releases Redact-It® 2.0, the newest version of its electronic redaction software. Professionals in legal and healthcare markets, law enforcement, government offices, financial institutions and more trust Redact-It to remove sensitive information from documents before releasing them to broader audiences.

This latest version of Redact-It includes OCR (optical character recognition) for PDF files, support for even more formats including WordPerfect, and the addition of IGC’s Changemarks® comment tool, which enables threaded discussions between reviewers. With Redact-It 2.0, users can now apply regular expressions to build custom search strings or re-use search strings already used in a different process, as in eDiscovery. The new version boasts new time-saving features, like the ability to highlight and remove text from all places where it appears in the document, and the ability to redact a specific area or zone across all pages.

“IGC continues to lead the industry in redaction technology,” said Gary Heath, president and CEO of IGC. “We are committed to innovating features and refining functionality to help users review and redact documents quickly and reliably. This release of Redact-It does just that.”

Key features of Redact-It 2.0 include:

Expanded format support, including WordPerfect, TXT and RTF

Ability to perform OCR on PDF documents, creating searchable text

Support for regular expressions

Option to add Changemarks comments, enabling users to reply and mark the current state of the discussion

Automatically redact all instances of highlighted text throughout the document

Redaction of a particular area of a page across all pages of a document

via Informative Graphics Announces Release of Latest Redact-It.

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What Does Your Phone Know About You? More Than You Think – Alexis Madrigal – Technology – The Atlantic

April 27, 2011 By Leave a Comment

I plugged my phone into my computer and opened an application called Lantern, a forensics program for investigating iPhones and iPads. Ten minutes later, I’m staring at everything my iPhone knows about me. About 14,000 text messages, 1,350 words in my personal dictionary, 1,450 Facebook contacts, tens of thousands of locations pings, every website I’ve ever visited, what locations I’ve mapped, my emails going back a month, my photos with geolocation data attached and how many times I checked my email on March 24 or any day for that matter. Want to reconstruct a night? Lantern has a time line that combines all my communications and photos in one neat interface. While most of it is invisible during normal operations, there is a record of every single thing I’ve done with this phone, which also happens to form a pretty good record of my life.

Figuring that I’ve got nothing to hide or steal, I’d always privileged convenience over any privacy and security protocols. Not anymore. Immediately after trying out Lantern, I enabled the iPhone’s passcode and set it to erase all data on the phone after 10 failed attempts. This thing remembers more about where I’ve been and what I’ve said than I do, and I’m damn sure I don’t want it falling into anyone’s hands.

via What Does Your Phone Know About You? More Than You Think – Alexis Madrigal – Technology – The Atlantic.

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Cloudant Has Found the Answer to Searching Big Data

January 18, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Cloudant has brought ad hoc search to NoSQL. The company has just released a developer preview of full text indexing and search for CloudDB. It takes all of the benefits of CouchDB and applies them to search. If you have big data, you might want to take notice.

Who Is Cloudant

Cloudant provides data hosting and analytics solutions based on BigCouch and CouchDB. Saying Cloudant was founded by smart guys, is kind of like saying Mother Theresa was a nice chick — an understatement and a little silly. In fact, the founders of the company are three MIT particle physicists who became frustrated with tools that were available to manage large datasets after working to analyze the data from the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider. Their frustration led to the development of Cloudant in 2008. Their work with big data eventually gained the attention of start-up venture capitalist, Y-Combinator, and, as they say, the rest is history.

Cloudant initially built their own toolset, later switched to an open source product and finally settled on CouchDB due to its API design and native support of RESTful interfaces. At the end of last year, the company released the first production versions of BigCouch and their CloudDB hosted services.

via Cloudant Has Found the Answer to Searching Big Data.

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ABBYY goes online: KMWorld

January 17, 2011 By Leave a Comment

ABBYY has announced ABBYY Online, a cloud solution to provide 24/7 access to document management, data capture and linguistic solutions to users located anywhere in the world.

The company says ABBYY Online currently offers the following elements:

FineReader Online OCR and document conversion. This service converts scanned or photographed images of documents (e.g. JPG, TIFF, DjVu and others) and PDF files into DOC, RTF, XLS, searchable PDF and TXT formats. The solution accurately reads texts in 37 languages including Latin, Cyrillic, Armenian and Greek characters and supports formatting and recognition of multilingual and multi-page files.

Lingvo Online Dictionary. The company offers updated and expanded dictionary databases with enhanced word look-up technology supporting English, French, German, Italian, Latin, Russian, Spanish and Ukrainian as the starting languages.

Translation and Interpreting with ABBYY Language Services. Users can quickly submit text of any length for professional translation.

Aligner Online. The service finds matching segments in source and translated texts in 10 European languages: English, German, French, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Turkish, and Ukrainian. It allows uploading files up to 1 MB each and provides export of up to 50 rows of the aligned text into RTF or TMX (Translation Memory databases format) files.

via ABBYY goes online: KMWorld.

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California’s top court backs cell-phone searches – Computerworld

January 4, 2011 By Leave a Comment

The California Supreme Court has ruled that police don’t need a warrant to search the text messages on a cell phone being carried by a suspect.

The 5-2 decision in People versus Gregory Diaz, released Monday, affirmed an appeals court decision in a case involving an arrest for alleged drug dealing in 2007. Diaz, the defendant in that case, had appealed his conviction on the basis that the search violated the U.S. Constitution’s protection against unreasonable search and seizure.

Diaz was arrested in 2007 on suspicion of conspiring to sell the drug Ecstasy to a police informant. When he was arrested, police found six tabs of Ecstasy and a cell phone on his person. Going through the sent text messages that were still stored on the phone, the police found the message “6 4 80,” which a Ventura County deputy sheriff interpreted as a proposal to sell six tabs of Ecstasy for US$80. When confronted with this evidence, Diaz admitted participating in the drug sale.

The majority opinion, written by Justice Ming Chin, cited precedents from the U.S. Supreme Court, saying the contents of a cell phone are like the contents of clothing or a cigarette pack found on a suspect’s person. The U.S. Supreme Court has found that those types of searches do not require a warrant under the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, the court said.

via California’s top court backs cell-phone searches – Computerworld.

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