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When AI Chat History Bites

Mike McBride — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:52:56 +0000

What do your AI chats say about you? Would you want someone else reading them and drawing their own conclusions? Maybe take a look at how long you keep them.

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Worth Reading – The Hidden Dangers of AI Chat History

Mike McBride — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 01:24:47 +0000

There's the obvious privacy issue with public AI tools, but people often overlook another reality: at work, someone likely has the same access to your AI interactions as they do to your email and Teams messages. As a company using AI, you're also responsible for all that data. You must protect it, keep it private, and, if required, collect it in response to a lawsuit or investigation.

Are you prepared to do that?

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Worth Reading – EDRM Invites Global Community to Shape EDRM 2.0 via Public Comment

Mike McBride — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 18:12:43 +0000

Those of you in the eDiscovery arena might already be aware of this new public comment period for the EDRM version 2.0. I took a quick look at it, and the one thing I will say is that I agree that eDiscovery is part of the Information Governance strategy for every firm, so I was glad to see that model as the underlying thread.

It also helps, when thinking about AI, to bring it into the full IG scope rather than considering it only as an eDiscovery problem. Because it's likely not that big of an eDiscovery problem, yet, but it's absolutely an IG problem.

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Worth Reading – Deepfakes: A Problem In Search Of A Problem?

Mike McBride — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 01:39:35 +0000

If you ask a group of legal professionals if they've seen deepfakes be an issue in court, and they all say no, is there no issue, or did they fall for the fakes?

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Rethinking eDiscovery in the Age of AI

Mike McBride — Sat, 05 Apr 2025 23:55:21 +0000

This makes me wonder if eDiscovery productions shouldn't be done using a solution like SharePoint, with permissions that allow the opposing side to read documents online but not download a copy. Thus, they would not have a copy to upload to a GenAI platform.

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Never Assume Searches Are Accurate Without Verifying

Mike McBride — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 13:28:33 +0000

Technology, especially M365 technology, changes all the time. It's vast and complicated, and things get broken when new versions are rolled out. When dealing with eDiscovery, security, privacy, etc., we have to stay on top of those changes to understand new features and ensure the old ones still work the same way.

Don't assume the old ones will always work the same way. I can tell you from this and plenty of other experiences they often don't.

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Linked – Changing the eDiscovery Burnout Blueprint: Practical Solutions to Address Failing Mental Wellness in the eDiscovery Industry

Mike McBride — Wed, 23 Oct 2024 01:00:19 +0000

It's great that someone is putting it all in writing with research. Still, until the collective response to our stories about dropping out of a wedding to pop open our laptop is "that's not acceptable," we will have this issue. We should reconsider the tales of all-nighters, working from vacations, and extraordinary efforts to get eDiscovery work done in time. Instead of wearing them like badges of honor, we should think of them as exploitation. What else would you call the expectation that you are available to respond 24/7, and when you sacrifice much of your personal and family life to meet that expectation, you are rewarded with a 2% raise at the end of the year?

Because as long as that is the job, mental health is going to be an issue.

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Learning Legal Tech – The Struggle for Attorneys

Mike McBride — Mon, 19 Jun 2023 17:44:54 +0000

Imagine a day when technologists, lawyers, and vendors could have easy conversations about eDiscovery because they all have a deep understanding of the technology and tools involved. We don't see it often, and that causes some real problems as we see from some of the cases we all read about. Maybe someday.

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Talking Using Metrics to Fight For Your Team’s Wellness on a Rampiva Webcast

Mike McBride — Thu, 04 Aug 2022 13:07:45 +0000

It was an interesting conversation, and I hope these conversations can help us in the eDiscovery industry think about employee wellness, mental health, diversity, and other issues that can result from doing things the way we've always done them. It's time for this conversation to be had across the industry. If this can spark more of that, I would be very happy.

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Linked: Remote Work Helped Meta Achieve Diversity Goals Years Ahead of Schedule

Mike McBride — Mon, 01 Aug 2022 13:55:41 +0000

Something I've been thinking a lot about in the industries I have worked in has been this idea that remote and asynchronous work is something that makes it less likely that the only people we can hire are the ones who are both willing and able to dedicate their entire days to be in the office and also willing to jump in and do more work at any hour of the day and weekends. That eliminates a whole bunch of people from even applying, especially women with kids, neurodiverse and disabled candidates, and underrepresented groups without a large presence in the area where your office happens to be. (When you start a company in Silicon Valley, Seattle, Austin, or some other "hot" area, your candidate pool is limited to the people who live there now or are willing to move immediately.)

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