Are we beginning to realize we are already at war?
NATO Warns That Cyber Attacks on Member States Could Trigger a Coordinated Military Response
NATO could respond to cyber attacks on its member states in similar ways to an armed attack. The alliance’s Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said the military coalition viewed cyber-attacks on its members as armed land, sea, or air assault, which demanded a collective military response.
… NATO ratified a Comprehensive Cyber Defense Policy, which could invoke Article 5 after a cyber attack perpetrated by rival entities against a NATO ally.
The article, which was ratified in 1949, perceives an attack on a member country as aggression against all alliance members and calls for a collective military response.
Locking the side door isn’t very useful if all the other doors and windows are still open.
https://clark.com/privacy/google-privacy-by-design/
Google Is Making a Big Change To Help You Control Your Data Privacy
Google has enabled a new privacy feature that requires you to enter your password to access your “My Activity” page.
… Although your account will be locked down and require you to enter your password to view some of your most sensitive data, the company makes it clear that the extra verification setting applies only to the “My Activity” feature.
“Your history may still appear in other Google products,” says a notification on the page.
Isn’t this “tampering with evidence?” (Oh look, another Donald Trump print.)
AI clears up images of fingerprints to help with identification
An AI that can repair blurred or distorted images of fingerprints lifted from crime scenes could make identifying people easier, but it is unclear whether such evidence would stand up in court.
Amol Joshi at West Virginia University and his colleagues trained an AI to cancel out distortions of fingerprints caused by incorrect camera focusing and other errors.
Adjusting the law for the computer age is not the same as creating a ‘gotcha’ law specifically for Facebook or other large tech companies.
Ruling on FTC's Facebook suits slams brakes on tech's legal foes
… Driving the news: Judge James Boasberg of the Federal District Court in D.C. sent the Federal Trade Commission back to the drawing board to show exactly how Facebook has a monopoly in the market for "personal social networking services."
The FTC's suit, filed in December, is "legally insufficient," Boasberg wrote: "It is almost as if the agency expects the court to simply nod to the conventional wisdom that Facebook is a monopolist."
Perspective. Automating the law business is big business.
AI-fueled e-discovery company DISCO plans IPO
… Austin-based DISCO, which offers artificial intelligence-enabled e-discovery, document review and case management solutions, filed its registration statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday.
"The broad applicability of our solution across a spectrum of industries has created a significant market opportunity for us, which we estimate to be $42 billion globally," the company said in the prospectus.
… The company isn't the only legal tech venture to announce intentions to go public in recent weeks. Glendale, California-based online legal services company LegalZoom.com Inc and Palo Alto-based Intapp Inc, a software provider for professional services and capital markets firms, both announced planned market debuts in the past month. LegalZoom is aiming for a valuation of more than $5 billion, while Intapp is aiming for a valuation of about $1.65 billion, according to regulatory filings.
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https://www.bespacific.com/how-do-you-calculate-the-roi-of-legal-tech/
How Do You Calculate the ROI of Legal Tech?
Artificial Lawyer: “How do you calculate the ROI of legal tech tools that your firm or inhouse team have bought? Moreover, are there any universal metrics that can be used? Artificial Lawyer asked several founders across a range of companies what they thought. Here is what they said. First, let’s do a NLP-driven bulk review tool. In this case, Kira Systems. CEO Noah Waisberg quoted from the company’s own recent book ‘AI for Lawyers’. The focus on ROI here addresses one of the fundamentals of legal tech: efficiency. But Waisberg also considers several other benefits. ‘A common response is to think of [using Kira] purely in terms of efficiency – that with AI you can do the same amount of work in less time, with the ROI coming in the form of lower costs for the same amount of work,’ he noted in the book. And this approach makes the most sense when you have a fixed fee for that part of the work, e.g. the due diligence review. But, he continued: ‘Another way to think about ROI, however, is that AI allows users to do more work, not just to do the same amount of work more cheaply. …. [or you can also] think about the ROI of AI in contract review [in terms of] its impact on realisation rates.’…”
Is automating juries the next step?
https://www.bespacific.com/virtual-juries/
Virtual Juries
Hans, Valerie P., Virtual Juries (June 4, 2021). Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 21-16, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3860165 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3860165
“The introduction of virtual or remote jury trials in response to the COVID-19 pandemic constitutes a remarkable natural experiment with one of our nation’s central democratic institutions. Although it is not a tightly controlled experimental study, real world experiences in this natural experiment offer some insights about how key features of trial by jury are affected by a virtual procedure. This article surveys the landscape of virtual jury trials. It examines the issues of jury representativeness, the adequacy of virtual jury selection, the quality of decision making, and the public’s access to jury trial proceedings. Many have expressed concern that the digital divide would negatively affect jury representativeness. Surprisingly, there is some preliminary evidence that suggests that virtual jury selection procedures lead to jury venires that are as diverse, if not more diverse, than pre-pandemic jury venires. Lawyers in a demonstration project reacted favorably to virtual voir dire when it was accompanied by expansive pretrial juror questionnaires and the opportunity to question prospective jurors. A number of courts provided public access by live streaming jury trials. How a virtual jury trial affects jurors’ interpretations of witness testimony, attorney arguments, and jury deliberation remain open questions.”
Now that’s a robot I can understand.
Heineken BOT is an autonomous beer cooler that follows you around
… The Heineken Beer Outdoor Transporter (B.O.T) looks like a tiny agricultural appliance and operates like your own R2-D2 droid, only instead of helping evade Stormtroopers, it makes sure you’re never too far away from a cold can of beer. The tiny robot features four wheels, two big wheels, sensors, a brain running AI, and the capacity to hold a dozen cans in addition to ice. [I can’t wait for the larger version, so I’ll buy at least four… Bob]
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