Relativity Trace

In addition to its document review platform, Relativity markets its Trace platform which gives businesses a way to monitor their employees' communications for compliance issues., with a particular focus on securities regulations. The system can be set to find improper use of PII, sales fraud, or simply focus on customer complaints. Communications data is loaded into Trace and reviewed so alerts can be given when possible misconduct is detected. Trace is capable of monitoring voice, email, chat, cell phone, and collaboration software data. It can import data from SharePoint, Office365, Exchange, Teams, Skype, Zoom, Yammer, WhatsApp, Google Drive, and other systems.

The layout is similar to the Relativity document review platform. Rules are set to implement a particular kind of surveillance policy, and search terms can target certain areas of concern.

Trace uses the Relativity Desktop Client to load data.

Reports can be generated which show how many records there are in various areas of concern.

Google and Kissinger: The Singularity is Coming

This night's post will be very far afield from the mundane concerns of electronic discovery or general legal technology. Today I watched a Zoom webinar on which Henry Kissinger and Eric Schmidt discussed artificial intelligence and the future of human civilization. If you want to grab an attorney's attention about the likelihood that AI will change the way the world works, you could do worse than to point out that Nixon's international relations consigliere and ego stroker, and one of the founders of Google are concerned enough about the possibility of a technological singularity (in which AI will begin to rapidly upgrade itself independently of human control (like in Terminator, but hopefully with better results)) to co-author a book about it, The Age of AI.

Here's some key takeaways from the discussion at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies today:

- Kissinger believes that AI will involve a different perception of reality - a shift away from the perception developed during the Enlightenment.

- We may see fighter jets controlled by AI, and it will be impossible for human operators to predict what they will do.

- If machines can operate unfettered, there will be a threat to our ability to organize human life.

- There is a strong possibility that artificial intelligence will interpret its assignments differently than human programmers.

- Kissinger asked a leading AI expert what his main focus was, who answered that he was working on making objects partners with humans, and providing those objects with their own judgment. When Kissinger questioned the wisdom of doing this, the expert said that he was only focused on how to do it.

creating folders in Relativity

Note that in the load file for a new production, the field named, 'Folder Info' will contain data that will generate a folder structure in the workspace. Each folder level will be separated with a backslash, so if you have a load file which reads:

þDoc_IDþParent_IDþFolder Infoþ

þXYZ_000912þXYZ_00912,þFolder 3\Folder 3.2\Folder 3.22.þ

. . . it will generate a folder structure like this:

Documents for which folder info are not given will be loaded to the root of the workspace.