Here’s the kitchen sink for June 21, 2024 of ten stories that I didn’t get to this week – with another brand-new meme from Gates Dogfish!

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Here is the kitchen sink for June 21, 2024 of ten stories that I didn’t get to this week, with a comment from me about each:

Clearview AI Used Your Face. Now You May Get a Stake in the Company.: No money to pay a settlement? No problem! You get a share of Clearview AI and you get…you know the rest. In other words, they have to continue to scraping faces off the Internet to pay those whose faces they scraped off the Internet. 🙁

Microsoft delays Recall again, won’t debut it with new Copilot+ PCs after all: Let me be the one millionth person to use the pun “Microsoft has decided to recall Recall”. 😉 Now, it will go through the normal beta process.

Meta halts plans to train AI on Facebook, Instagram posts in EU: After discussions with the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC), Meta decided to pause that plan. Why? I can think of at least 1.5 billion reasons illustrated here and here.

Adobe’s hidden cancellation fee is unlawful, FTC suit says: This isn’t a legal tech topic, but it “chaps my bee-hind” when companies make it difficult to cancel subscriptions. FTC says cancelling Adobe is “convoluted”, Adobe says it’s “a simple cancellation process”. We’ll see. Second week in a row for a story about Adobe’s business practices. 😮

New Frontiers in Remote Work: From Tech Jobs to eDiscovery and Beyond: Rob Robinson illustrates how remote work isn’t dead by any means. In this terrific post on ComplexDiscovery, he also discusses “digital nomad residency programs” in countries like Estonia, Portugal, and Barbados! Work there instead of Texas during another hot summer? Sign me up! 😀 Now, all I need is the money to do it. 🙁

AI Gold Rush: Are We Repeating the Dot-Com Bubble?: Very thought-provoking article by Cheryl Wilson Griffin. One notable example of how it may be getting blown out of proportion: Harvey, which was seeking a valuation of $2 billion, while reportedly having about two-dozen customers and has been seen at legal tech conferences as much as James Stewart’s invisible rabbit Harvey.

Navigating a Shifting Landscape: An excerpt of an interview of Dr. Maura R. Grossman by Kate Halloran of the magazine Trial (with the full interview article embedded) in the EDRM blog. Maura discusses recommendations regarding policies around the responsible use of AI, AI-generated evidence and deepfakes (including the rules changes proposed by Maura and retired judge Paul W. Grimm). A must read!

Is Gen AI Creating A Divide Among Law Firms Of Haves and Have Nots?: Terrific article by Bob Ambrogi who spoke to a group of trial lawyers and asked them if they had tried ChatGPT. Only two hands went up, none use it for legal work, none had heard of the Avianca case. It appears that many small firms are still behind, per usual. 🙁

Do Courts Favor Plaintiffs on Discovery? Amazon Thinks So: Interesting article from Adolfo Pesquera. Should insurance policies associated with Amazon drivers be confidential or not? Amazon says yes (and that only 6 of 1.5million(!) employees have access, courts in Texas say no (so far).

When is Failure to Provide a Timely Privilege Log Excusable?: As Michael Berman discusses in this interesting case write-up on the EDRM blog, the answer is when neither side has their act together.

Hope you enjoyed the kitchen sink for June 21, 2024! Back next week with another edition!

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