JTDL: New justice tech trade assoc.; mass shooting DB launches + Jobs
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News
Breaking some news this week, I spoke with the people behind a new justice tech trade association. (Talk Justice)
Fourteen of 15 federal cabinet departments use a controversial phone-cracking tool. (Intercept) Israel launches inquiry into police hacking claims. (BBC)
A tech firm offered cops facial recognition software to ID homeless people. (Vice)
Are tech-enabled tracking devices simply too ripe for abuse to exist? (New York Times)
A bill aiming to protect children online reignites a battle over encryption. (Washington Post)
Humanitarian organizations keep getting hacked because they don’t have the money to secure their data. (Rest of World)
There’s a new mass shooting database. (NIJ)
Don’t call us edge cases: Designing from the margins. (Belfer Center)
Events
HiiL Justice Accelerator’s demo day is Feb. 16. (HiiL)
The Social Science Research Council will launch the Just Tech research platform on March 1. (SSRC)
RightsCon is June 6-10. (RC)
Jobs & Opportunities
Access to Justice Tech Fellows’ science fiction writing contest for law students is accepting entries. (A2JTF)
ACLU Massachusetts needs a technology for liberty intern. (ACLUM)
American Academy of Arts & Sciences needs a program officer for civil justice. (AAAS)
Arlington County, VA’s states attorney needs a data and litigation support analyst. (ACSA) (h/t Oren Gur)
Boundless has numerous openings. (B) (h/t Chase Hertel)
California’s Committee on Revision of the Penal Code needs a staff attorney that’s good with data. (CRPC) (h/t Tom Nosewicz)
[New] Center for Democracy and Technology has multiple open positions. (CDT) (h/t Alex Givens)
The Civil Beat Law Center needs a staff attorney. (CBLC) (h/t Brian Black)
Color of Change needs devs and PMs. (CoC) (h/t Archana Ahlawat)
The Congressional-Executive Commission on China needs staff for it’s technology-enhanced authoritarianism research. (CECC)
The Criminal Justice Administrative Records System at the University of Michigan is hiring. (CJARS)
Data & Society needs a director of research (DS)
Duke Law School’s Wilson Center for Science and Justice needs a policy director. (WCSJ)
The Day One Project has numerous openings. (D1P)
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has multiple openings. (EFF)
Ford Foundation is looking for technology fellows. (FF)
Georgetown’s Center for Privacy and Technology needs a senior associate. (GU) (h/t Samantha Simonsen)
Georgetown Law needs a teaching fellow for its Communications & Technology Law Clinic. (GU)
Harvard’s Library Innovation Lab needs a dev. (LIL)
HeatSeek needs a program associate. (HS)
Honest Jobs needs a VP of marketing and alliances. (HJ) (h/t Brian Howe)
The International Conference on Anticipation has a call for papers. (ICA)
JustCity Memphis needs a data scientist. (JCM)
JustFix is hiring for multiple roles. (JF) (h/t Pinky Chan)
Just Tech has numerous openings. (JT) (h/t Legal Tech Jobs)
The Law Society of Alberta’s regulatory sandbox is taking applications. (LSA) (h/t Len Polsky)
The Law Society of Ontario’s regulatory sandbox is taking applications. (LSO) (h/t Will Morrison)
The UK’s Legal Education Fund needs a research principle. (LEF)
Measures for Justice has multiple positions open. (M4J)
The National Center for State Courts needs court consultants. (NCSC)
The National Registry of Exonerations needs an ED. (NRE) (h/t Amani Smathers)
The New York County District Attorney’s Office needs a technical product specialist. (DANY)
Northeastern University needs a information justice prof. (NEU)
[New] Northwestern Law is launching the Journal des Refusés and accepting statements of interest. (JdR)
Paladin has multiple openings. (P) (h/t Felicity Conrad)
PEW seeks a freelancer for a lit review on research related to court time and costs, email your interest to the link. (PEW) (h/t Darcy White)
The Philly District Attorney's Office is looking to fill a number of roles, including for a dev. (PDAO)
Princeton’s Center for Information and Technology Policy needs summer interns. (CITP)
ProBonoNet needs a product manager. (PBN)
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 CodeX is looking for fellows. (SC)
Stanford RegLab needs fellows. (SRL) (h/t Christine Tsang)
Surveillance Technology Oversight Project has legal and policy openings (STOP) and an internship. (STOP). (h/t Eleni Manis)
Theory and Principle, a legal software development boutique, needs a PM. (T&P)
The University of San Francisco needs a data ethics fellow. (USF)
Upsolve, the bankruptcy platform, is hiring for multiple roles. (US)
Upturn needs a research assistant. (UT)
The US Digital Response needs a digital services program lead. (USDR)
Vera needs an innovation senior associate. (Vera)
We Robot has a call out for papers. (WR)
Yale’s Internet Society Project is accepting applications for its fellowship. (ISP)