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You can use this PowerShell script to generate a list of each file extension on a C drive.
Get-ChildItem -Path C:\ -Recurse -File | Select-Object Extension -Unique | Sort-Object Extension
As always I’ve tested this method and confirmed that it works. It should take 10 to 20 minutes depending on the size of the hard drive.
How is data generated by aiR utilized by Relativity?
Relativity has published a white paper addressing its AI security policies assuring its clients that it focuses on data privacy at each stage of its development of aiR. Its information security management system is audited multiple times by an independent agency. Steps are taken to ensure that it is in compliance with the regulations of each jurisdiction in which it operates.
It utilizes the Azure OpenAI service. Azure not only guarantees that all data inputted by its clients and the outputs that the clients receive are not disclosed to other clients, but also promises that this data will not be used to improve other AI models. Azure’s OpenAI does not exchange information with other OpenAI services such as ChaTGPT.
However clients can agree to Relativity’s use of derived data sets which can be used to improve the software’s performance. It does anonymize these data sets.
Relativity conducts monthly control evidence requests to test whether or not security policies are being complied with.
Relativity gives its clients the right to revoke permission to participate in AI experiments.
Azure can conduct manual review of content to check for potential security vulnerabilities. It’s notable that in order to safeguard the privacy of its clients’ data, Relativity opts out of such monitoring by Azure. See this post on the Microsoft site which states, “when automated review does not meet applicable confidence thresholds in complex contexts or if automated review systems are not available, human eyes-on review may be introduced to make an extra judgment. Authorized Microsoft employees may assess content flagged through content classification and/or identified as part of a potentially abusive pattern of use.“
Keep in mind that Relativity’s Lockbox settings lets users prevent Relativity admins from accessing selected data. The client can control who can get into a workspace.
For RelOne Government data storage is restricted to the United States.
Nearly all litigation support professionals and paralegals have had occasion to use the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. It's very common for deposition or trial exhibits to be prepared which rely on the versions of web pages archived at https://web.archive.org/ . After pulling down an archived page, I never really gave the site much more thought other than to sometimes wonder about how the Internet Archive gets the resources to store so much data on its servers.
This past week, I tuned into a Lexbe webinar conducted by Nicholas Taylor, who is the Deputy Group Leader for Technology Strategy and Services with the Research Library at Los Alamos National Laboratory. For a subject on a topic I had assumed there was not much to learn about, Taylor's presentation proved to be very informative.
Most attorneys and legal professionals have likely assumed that the images stored in the Wayback Machine simply show a webpage from a particular moment in time. This is not necessarily the case.
If you search for the web page: https://www.nasdaq.com/market-activity/stocks on the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine, and select one of the dates on which the webpage was periodically archived . . .
. . . you will be taken to a version of the page with the selected date clearly listed in IAWM banner.
However, you may have missed the small drop down menu captioned, 'About this capture' at the right. Click there and you'll see a long list indicating the multiple elements which comprise the page were captured at different times.
As Taylor demonstrates in the webinar, this 'temporal incoherence' can mean that different parts of the web page being shown together on the IAWM, were never actually meant to be viewed together. The example he gives shows how an archived image from the Weather Underground site shows a text caption listing weather conditions in an American town at 8:54 AM in the morning, but a radar graphic from 5:34 PM does not show the rain which the caption indicates took place that morning.
You'll also notice that the 'About this capture' information shows that the archived image was collected using Archive-IT - a service provided by the Internet Archive which outside parties used. An individual user can save any web page at their own initiative at: https://web.archive.org/save/
This is certainly a helpful resource to use for evidence preservation that anyone working for a law firm can easily access. It's not even necessary to create an account. The Internet Archive is actually working with many hundreds of outside parties to build its archive - some of these focus on capturing content they deem to be particularly important.
IAWM also has a redline tool which will allow you to compare how two different versions of a web page have changed. The 'Changes' option uses a color scheme to show how much change took place between successive dates on the calendar:
Select two different times for the same page, and the IAWM will show in yellow where text was removed, and in blue where text was added:
Taylor has his own site, nullhandle.org, which I encourage everyone to check out. Please watch the Lexbe webinar carefully. He includes the results of his own research into how many federal district and circuit courts will or will not allow for Internet Archive evidence to be admitted by judicial notice; expert witness testimony; affidavits; or by fact testimony by a witness with personal knowledge of a site.
The amount of data archived by IAWM truly is extensive - even my own one-man blog has been archived - see: https://web.archive.org/web/20250119082936/http://www.litigationsupporttipofthenight.com/ - and I promise this was done by some service I am not associated with.