Hacking for Hire
A small newsletter on legaltech
AI
The 2024 American Bar Association’s Legal Technology Survey Report includes the finding that “AI adoption within the legal profession nearly tripled year over year, from 11% in 2023 to 30% in 2024” [H/T to Bob Ambrogi @ LawSites]
Also from Bob Ambrogi: he tries out OpenAI’s Deep Research on one of the more fiendish legal research queries from the AI Smackdown conducted at the 2025 SCALL Spring Institute
Ivy B. Grey on how writing ties to thinking and the risks of using GenAI tools to do the hardest writing tasks
A deep dive into data protection policies of some popular GenAI tools
Blockchain/Digital Currency
Federal prosecutors claimed last week that a series of cryptocurrency heists were tied to hacks of users’ LastPass accounts from 2022
Data Privacy
The Attorney General of New York is suing insurance company Allstate and related businesses in state court for not taking reasonable precautions in protecting the PII of website users looking for insurance quotes, both making it easy for hackers to steal their data and not notifying the users of the data breach [The Register | NY AG Press Release | Complaint (PDF)]
From NBC News: “A set of criminal cases filed in New York and Washington add new detail to what U.S. officials say is a booming hacking-for-hire ecosystem in China, in which private companies and contractors are paid by the Chinese government to target victims of particular interest to Beijing in an arrangement meant to provide Chinese state security forces cover and deniability”
Long Reads(ish)
Casper, S., Krueger, D. and Hadfield-Menell, D., 2025. Pitfalls of Evidence-Based AI Policy. arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.09618.https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.09618v3
Surden, Harry, “Artificial Intelligence, Autonomous Systems, and Law - Welcome and Keynote,” Silicon Flatirons, March 7, 2025, Colorado Law