JTDL: North Carolina eCourts mess; Police take digital bribes + New jobs
JTDL: North Carolina eCourts mess; Police take digital bribes + New jobs
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News
The North Carolina Courts’ $100 million eCourts mess. (Assembly)
Clearview AI scraped 30 billion images from Facebook and gave them to the cops. (Business Insider)
ICE is grabbing data from schools and abortion clinics. (Wired)
The DEA has added Apple’s AirTags to its surveillance arsenal. (Tech Dirt)
ChatGPT cannot be a panacea for access to justice. (Law360) OpenAI was threatened with a landmark defamation lawsuit over ChatGPT’s false claims. (Ars Technica) ChatGPT invented a sexual harassment scandal and named a real law professor as the accused. (Washington Post)
The high cost of staying in touch while incarcerated can linger long after release. (PBS)
Mexicans say some police officers are taking bribes with mobile payment services. (Rest of World)
Why do Western governments delegate border control to AI more and more? (Global Voices)
Teaching inmates in Argentina to make video games in prison. (Rest of World)
A guiding framework to vetting public sector technology vendors. (Ford Foundation)
Artificial intelligence and the courts: Materials for judges. (AAAS)
Events
Stanford CodeX’s FutureLaw is April 13. (CX)
I’ll be speaking at Hofstra’s Technological Growth in Tort Liability & Practice April 14. (Hofstra)
Meta Lab’s conversation on the personal cost of human rights work is April 19. (ML)
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)
WeRobot is September 29-30. (WR)
Jobs & Opportunities
Aspen Tech Policy Hub’s Nonprofit and Public Interest Policy Training Fellowship is accepting applicants. (ATPH)
Baltimore City is looking for data fellows program manager. (Balt)
Center for Democracy and Technology has multiple open positions. (CDT) (h/t Alex Givens)
[New] Data and Society is hiring for various roles. (DS)
The Federal Trade Commission needs technologists. (FTC)
The Free Law Project needs a development director. (FLP) (h/t Mike Lissner)
The Ford Foundation needs a missions investments technology fellow. (FF)
The Legal Services Corporation has tech and innovation RFPs open. (LSC) (h/t Sarah Abdelhadi)
The Journal of Science and Law is accepting papers on justice tech. (JSL) (h/t Sasha Davenport)
Just Tech has numerous openings. (JT) (h/t Legal Tech Jobs)
JusticeText needs a marketing lead. (JT) (h/t Devshi Mehrotra)
MacArthur Foundation needs a program officer focused on public interest tech. (MF) (h/t Keith Porcaro)
Open Contracting Partnership has a grant for procurement reformers. (OCP) (h/t Reilly Martin)
The Philly District Attorney's Office is looking to fill a number of roles. (PDAO) (h/t Oren Gur)
The Policing Project has multiple openings. (PP) (h/t Kaylynn Lopez)
Raheem is hiring for numerous roles. (R)
Rejis needs an executive director. (R) (h/t Anjali Fernandes)
SimpleCitizen, an immigration tech company, has engineering, product and sales roles. (SC) (h/t Eleni Manis)
Stanford University needs a civil justice and innovation fellow. (SU)
Surveillance Resistance Lab needs a senior research fellow. (SRL) (h/t Rebecca Williams)
[New] Tech Matters needs a research assistant for a new book and a data commons project. (TM)
The Tech Talent Project is hiring for multiple roles. (TTP)
Theory and Principle, a legal software development boutique, is hiring. (T&P)
UCLA Law Behind Bars Data Project seeks Research Director. (UCLA)
[New] The University of Florence (Italy) is seeking applicants for its school on digital constitutionalism. (UF)
[New] The University of Virginia needs a fellow focused on data and democracy. (UVA)
