Lawyer Ex Machina: Happy Halloween!
From Business Insider (via Apple News): "Lawyers Rush to Benefit From Arizona's New Rules on Law Firm Ownership" [PrintFriendly]
Sen. Mark Warner is the second public official to publicly question Meta on the data collection of sensitive medical information from hospital websites.
"Lack of budget and resistance to change are top barriers to digital transformation in most legal departments across the US, according to new research." [CIO Magazine]
The Administrative Office of the United States Courts has written a letter to Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Richard Durbin on current legislation to make PACER free.
Related: The Congressional Budget Office has released a cost estimate of S. 2614, the Open Courts Act.
Texas is suing Google over the collection of biometric data from Texas residents via facial and voice-recognition software in the Google Photos app, the Google Assistant service and the Nest Hub Max.
Large law firms are starting to advantage of AI-enhanced legal products to manage M&A work.
From MIT Technology Review: how AI (or at least increasingly sophisticated algorithms) is being used to make a range of healthcare decisions, including literal questions of life and death. [$]
Big data collection + adtech algorithms = voter analytics for very targeted campaign ads. [NY Times ($)]
"Tesla faces U.S. criminal probe over self-driving claims"