OnionWars
A small newsletter on legaltech
AI
A copyright infringement case against OpenAI, brought by Raw Story and AlterNet was dismissed (without prejudice); could a new standard for concrete harm lead to more? [Reuters | VentureBeat | Docket]
Anthropic, developer of GenAI model Claude and its range of products, is partnering with Amazon Web Services and Palantir to provide access to U.S. intelligence and defense agencies
The Canadian Legal Information Institute (CanLII), which provides free access to Canadian caselaw, legislation, and legal commentary, has filed suit against a developer of an AI chatbot, claiming copyright infringement and violation of the website’s terms of service by the defendant’s alleged bulk scraping of the CanLII website [LawSites | Canadian Lawyer | Notice of civil claim]
There has been 34 known cases of hallucinations arising from GenAI used in court filings, by lawyers, self-represented litigants and even an expert witness
From Law360 [$]: “Future of Anti-Deepfake Federal Law Is Murky, Panel Says”
Data Privacy
From 404 Media (free story): “Officials inside the Secret Service clashed over whether they needed a warrant to use location data harvested from ordinary apps installed on smartphones, with some arguing that citizens have agreed to be tracked with such data by accepting app terms of service, despite those apps often not saying their data may end up with the authorities, according to hundreds of pages of internal Secret Service emails obtained by 404 Media”
AT&T and Verizon have filed briefs in a case challenging FCC fines for selling user location data, arguing that the fines are unconstitutional
Miscellaneous
The Utah Supreme Court is considering a plan to allow graduates of ABA-accredited law schools in the state to be admitted to the bar with 240 hours of supervised practice in lieu of the bar exam (which will remain an option)
Apple has been levied with the first fine based on violations of the EU’s Digital Markets Act, arising from policies around its app store [Yahoo! Finance | Reuters]