Lawyer Ex Machina #52: The End of Privacy?
AI
A UK appellate judge announced that he used ChatGPT to write a portion of a legal summary used in a judgment, calling the chatbot "jolly useful." [The Guardian ($)]
From Attorney at Work: "Harnessing ChatGPT: A Primer for Lawyers"
The GAO has published a report on the use of facial recognition technology by law enforcement agencies within DHS and DOJ, finding that there was no mandatory training of users for 3 years.
Another week, another group of authors filed suit against OpenAI for copyright infringement - this one involves John Grisham, Jonathan Franzen, Jodi Picoult, George R. R. Martin, and more, in addition to the Authors Guild. [NY Times | Tor.com | Docket]
A conundrum - companies are interested in GenAI products to use with legal workflows, but don't want their corporate data used to train such products [LegalTech News ($)]
Are law schools freaking out too much over GenAI?
From Wired [$]: "How a ‘Digital Peeping Tom’ Unmasked Porn Actors" using facial recognition programs - an excerpt from "Your Face Belongs to Us: A Secretive Startup's Quest to End Privacy as We Know It" by Kashmir Hill
Related: Google and Meta developed facial recognition technology but held it back from release due to privacy concerns
Blockchain
FTX is suing Joe Bankman and Barbara Fried, parents of former CEO Sam Bankman-Fried, to recover assets given or loaned to them by SBF and the company. [CNN | New York Magazine Intelligencer]
A recent study found that the majority of NFT collections now have little to no value, and close to 80% of all NFT collections are unsold
Data Privacy
TikTok has been hit with a $368 million fine by Ireland's Data Protection Commission for violations of data protection measures for teen users
Is the demand for data privacy professionals not being met by law schools? [Law.com ($) | Letter by Prof. Daniel Solove]
Casino Royale
MGM Resorts and Caesars Entertainment were hit with cyberattacks earlier this month, with MGM shutting down payment, hotel reservations and other systems for more than a week, and Caesars reportedly paying millions in dollars in ransom to the hackers [Computer Weekly | AP | KVVU-TV Las Vegas]
Caesars is now facing a class-action suit arising out of the data breach/cyber attack, led by a loyalty-program customer