JTDL: AI police sketches; the end of physical prison mail + New jobs
JTDL: AI police sketches; the end of physical prison mail + New jobs
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News
A paralegal accuses DoNotPay of fraud. (Law360)
AI might generate police sketches, and experts are horrified. (Vice)
NYC jails to digitize and get rid of physical mail for inmates. (Appeal)
The US Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals is the latest to say filming cops is protected by the First Amendment. (Tech Dirt)
There is no “Going Dark:” Dutch law enforcement spent months intercepting and reading encrypted messages. (Tech Dirt)
The White House’s new executive order focuses on equity and marginalized communities, including harms created by tech and data. (WH)
Design thinking was supposed to fix the world. Where did it go wrong? (MIT Tech Review)
A guide for builders experimenting with data governance. (Mozilla)
Events
Princeton University’s Center for Information Technology Policy’s Mitigating Technology Abuse in Intimate Partner Violence and Encrypted Messaging is Feb. 22. (PU)
The Judicial Innovation Fellows Program’s information session for technologists and designers is Feb. 28. (JIF)
The Code for America Summit is May 16-17. (CfA)
The Privacy Law Scholars Conference is June 1-2. (PLSC)
RightsCon is June 5-8. (RC)
Jobs & Opportunities
All Tech is Human is hiring a program associate. (ATIH)
Center for Democracy and Technology has multiple open positions. (CDT) (h/t Alex Givens)
Data and Society is hiring for various roles. (DS)
Just Tech has numerous openings. (JT) (h/t Legal Tech Jobs)
The Justice Tech Association needs an intern. (JTA) (h/t Maya Markovich)
[New] Georgetown’s Beeck Center needs an intergovernmental software collaborative fellow. (BC)
[New] Georgetown’s Center on Privacy and Technology is hiring justice fellows. (CPT)
[New] Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center needs a director for its ethical tech reserach. (BKC)
[New] Harvard’s Social and Historical Perspectives on Calculation in the Law symposium is accepting abstracts. (HU)
[New] JusticeText needs a marketing lead. (JT) (h/t Devshi Mehrotra)
New America’s Open Technology Institute needs a policy counsel. (NA)
[New] Northeastern University needs an AI and social justice prof. (NU)
Paladin has multiple openings. (P) (h/t Kristin Sonday)
The Philly District Attorney's Office is looking to fill a number of roles, including for a DB admin and content interns. (PDAO) (h/t Oren Gur)
The Policing Project has multiple openings. (PP) (h/t Kaylynn Lopez)
SimpleCitizen, an immigration tech company, has engineering, product and sales roles. (SC) (h/t Eleni Manis)
Stanford Law School needs a justice innovation lead. (SLS)
Surveillance Resistance Lab needs a senior research fellow. (SRL) (h/t Rebecca Williams)
Theory and Principle, a legal software development boutique, is hiring. (T&P)
[New] University of Michigan needs a professor in racial justice in science and tech policy. (UM)
Upsolve, the bankruptcy platform, needs an engineer. (U)
US Attorney's Office for DC is looking for a data analyst intern. (USA) (h/t Connor Concannon)
US Senator Jeane Shaheen needs counsel to help with judiciary and cybersecurity, among other issues. (JS)
