Digital Trojan Horse
A small newsletter about legaltech
AI
From The Register: “Police around the United States are routinely using facial recognition technology to help identify suspects, but those departments rarely disclose they've done so - even to suspects and their lawyers”
Meta has a new set of AI models that can generate and edit video, audio and still images, supposedly creating a realistic deepfake video of a person based on a single photo
Blockchain/Digital Currency
From Bloomberg Law ($): “Three market making firms allegedly promised to gin up an avalanche of fake trades to boost the value of NexFundAI’s cryptocurrency token. What they didn’t know was that NexFundAI wasn’t a real company. It was part of an elaborate sting operation by federal prosecutors” [Coindesk]
Data Privacy
A group of hackers from China carried out a cyberattack that hit a number of U.S. broadband providers, specifically targeting the networks used to provide information to law enforcement [Wall St. Journal ($)]
The Center for Digital Democracy has published a report about connected TVs, devices and streaming services that have formed a system that surveils and retains large collections of consumer data that can “pose severe privacy risks” [Ars Technica article | Report]
License-plate readers are capturing a whole lot more information than anticipated and there are no clear rules about what happens to that information. [Wired ($)]
A hacker penetrated the Internet Archive and stole its user authentication database, which could impact up to 31 million users