JTDL: Chinese police data leak; Review-bombing witnesses + New jobs
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News
The bankruptcy platform Upsolve won its injunction against the New York Bar to train people to provide free legal advice. (NY Courts)
Lawmakers demand ATF gun shop inspection data. (USA Today)
Abortion criminalization brings new urgency to the fight for digital privacy. (ACLU) Google was urged to stop collecting phone location data before the expected Roe v. Wade reversal. (Ars Technica)
Social media companies are facing pressure to start archiving war crimes evidence. (Coda)
A major leak of Chinese police data provided an unprecedented view of detention camps in China’s Xinjiang region. (Xinjiang Police Files)
A federal surveillance transparency report documents an urgent need for change. (Electronic Frontier Foundation)
A two-year investigation reveals ICE has data on most Americans. (NPR) Tracked and Trapped: Experiences from ICE digital prisons. (No Tech for ICE)
President Biden’s recent executive order on criminal justice calls for the study of facial recognition and predictive algorithms used by law enforcement. (White House)
People are review-bombing Amber Heard’s expert witnesses. (Twitter) (h/t Keith Porcaro)
AI may search you for guns the next time you go out in public. (Washington Post)
The ABA Center for Innovation launched a metrics catalog to track the court system. (LawNext)
US cities are backing off banning facial recognition. (Reuters) San Francisco’s mayor proposed legislation that would increase city access to private security cameras. (Mayor of SF)
An Ohio man seemingly unaware of the Streisand effect sued Google, Unicourt, the Free Law Project, and others because public court data about him was published on their platforms. (Ohio Courts)
Events
RightsCon is June 6-10. (RC)
Reimagining Justice: From Ideas To Impact by the American Bar Foundation is June 23-5. (ABF)
The Race to Regulate AI at the University of Oxford is June 30. (UOx)
The Colour of Surveillance Europe Conference is Sept. is 15-16. (EDRi)
Jobs & Opportunities
Access to Justice Tech Fellows opened summer placement positions for law students. (ATJ)
[New] Arizona State University’s Center for Science & Imagination needs a program coordinator. (ASU)
Bay Area Legal Services (Florida) needs a legal tech and digital project manager. (BALS)
Berkeley Law’s Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic needs a clinical professor. (UCB)
Boundless has numerous openings. (B) (h/t Chase Hertel)
Brookings’ Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technology initiative needs a Project Coordinator. (BI)
Carnegie Melon University needs an ED for its tech and society center. (CMU)
Center for Democracy and Technology has multiple open positions. (CDT) (h/t Alex Givens)
Center for Policing Equity needs a VP of tech and data (an engineer). (CPE)
Color of Change needs a director of IT and infosec. (CoC) (h/t Archana Ahlawat)
The Criminal Justice Administrative Records System at the University of Michigan is looking for fellows. (CJARS)
The Day One Project has numerous openings. (D1P)
European Digital Rights needs a comms director. (EDRi)
The Electronic Frontier Foundation needs a director of institutional support. (EFF)
Georgetown’s Center for Privacy and Technology needs a senior associate. (GU) (h/t Samantha Simonsen)
The Georgetown Law Institute for Technology Law & Policy’s student writing competition is open. (ITLP) (h/t Mary Pat Dwyer)
Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center needs a coordinator. (BKC)
The Hague Institute for Innovation of Law has openings. (HiiL)
Huton Andrews Kurth needs an AI & Emerging Technologies Fellow. (HAK)
Just Tech has numerous openings. (JT) (h/t Legal Tech Jobs)
[New] Legal Services of Northern California need an IT manager. (LSNC) (h/t Amy Williams)
Measures for Justice has multiple positions open. (M4J)
MIT needs a postdoctoral associate focused on digital teaching simulations and AI coaching. (MIT)
The National Center for State Courts needs court consultants. (NCSC)
New America’s New Practice Lab needs a deputy director. (NA)
The Omidyar Network needs principals for their Responsible Tech initiative. (ON)
Paladin has multiple openings. (P) (h/t Felicity Conrad)
The Philly District Attorney's Office is looking to fill a number of roles, including for a dev. (PDAO)
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)
Stand Together Ventures Lab needs an investment analyst. (STVL)
Stanford Law School needs a justice innovation lead. (SLS) (h/t Andrew Wichmann)
Stanford RegLab needs a research director. (SRL) (h/t Christine Tsang)
Surveillance Technology Oversight Project has openings. (STOP) (h/t Eleni Manis)
Systemic Justice needs a strategic partnership lead. (SJ) (h/t Keith Porcaro)
TechCongress needs a program operations manager. (TC)
Theory and Principle, a legal software development boutique, is hiring. (T&P)
Texas Indigent Defense Commission needs a data analyst. (TIDC)
The University of Helsinki Legal Tech Lab needs a doctoral researcher in automated systems and administrative legal frameworks. (UH)
Upsolve, the bankruptcy platform, is hiring for multiple roles. (US)
Urban Institute’s Justice Policy Center needs a principle research associate. (UI) (h/t Emily Tiry)
Vera has numerous openings for data scientist and IT roles. (Vera)
[New] Witness needs a consultant for its Cameras Everywhere program. (W)
The World Economic Forum needs early career folks for their AI Action Alliance, Tech & Digital, and UpLink teams. (WEF)