Published on: 2025-06-03 09:00:00
After a while, Danae Shell got tired of hearing the same story over and over again. “Something bad would happen to someone at work, and the story always ended the same way,” she told TechCrunch. “They just left, because doing anything else was incredibly complex and expensive.” One doesn’t need to look far to notice that for many people, seeking legal recourse feels so daunting and complex that many just don’t try. Even for someone with a cushy tech job, the prospect of going against their com
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-07 14:44:46
Football and other premium TV being pirated at 'industrial scale' 16 minutes ago Share Save Graham Fraser Technology Reporter Share Save Getty Images Liverpool won the English Premier League this season, and live football is the focus on many illegal streams A lack of action by big tech firms is enabling the "industrial scale theft" of premium video services, especially live sport, a new report says. The research by Enders Analysis accuses Amazon, Google, Meta and Microsoft of "ambivalence an
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These devices detected when a car was undergoing emissions testing and altered performance to meet environmental standards — while in real-world driving conditions, the cars emitted pollutants far above legal limits. In 2017, Volkswagen admitted to manipulating emissions data in the United States, sparking global backlash and triggering one of the biggest corporate scandals in automotive history. The fallout plunged the Wolfsburg-based carmaker into a deep crisis. In 2019, German prosecutors c
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-19 13:41:14
12 Pages Posted: 7 Jul 2009 Last revised: 20 Jan 2011 Abstract Roald Dahl’s "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" is well-known as a dark fantasy in which five children win a visit to a whimsical candy company. Less conspicuous is the legal issue of trade secrecy driving the novel’s plot. Secrecy is not indigenous to fictional representations of the candy industry, but is widespread throughout its real-world confectionary counterparts of today and yesteryear. An investigation of the need for sec
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-27 14:10:44
The United Kingdom's Legal Aid Agency (LAA) has confirmed that a recent cyberattack is more serious than first believed, with hackers stealing a large trove of sensitive applicant data in a data breach. This confirmation of the data breach incident comes from the UK government, which was closely involved in the investigations that followed the initial disclosure. LAA is an executive agency of the UK Ministry of Justice responsible for administering legal aid in the form of advice, representati
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-27 19:45:44
Domestic abuse victim data stolen in Legal Aid hack The ministry urged the public to be alert for any suspicious activity "This data may have included... addresses of applicants, dates of birth, national ID numbers, criminal history, employment and financial data such as... debts and payments," the MoJ said. The breach covers all areas of the aid system - including domestic abuse victims, those in family cases and others facing criminal prosecution. The Ministry of Justice said the agency's
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'Significant amount' of private data stolen in Legal Aid hack The ministry urged the public to be alert for any suspicious activity "This data may have included... addresses of applicants, dates of birth, national ID numbers, criminal history, employment and financial data such as... debts and payments," the MoJ said. The breach covers all areas of the aid system - including domestic abuse victims, those in family cases and others facing criminal prosecution. The Ministry of Justice said the
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-28 06:21:59
The agency's chief executive Jane Harbottle apologised, saying she understood the news "will be shocking and upsetting for people". The MoJ said that while the initial cyber-attack was detected in April, it has since become apparent that the incident was "more extensive than originally understood". It also warned the public to be alert for any suspicious activity, including unknown messages or phone calls, and to update any potentially exposed passwords. "If you are in doubt about anyone you
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-28 06:47:57
The advent of AI has already made a splash in the legal world, to say the least. In the past few months, we've watched as a tech entrepreneur gave testimony through an AI avatar, trial lawyers filed a massive brief riddled with AI hallucinations, and the MyPillow guy tried to exonerate himself in front of a federal judge with ChatGPT. By now, it ought to be a well-known fact that AI is an unreliable source of info for just about anything, let alone for something as intricate as a legal filing.
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-29 01:39:00
In context: Microsoft Teams saw explosive growth during the pandemic, but its integration with Microsoft 365 triggered European antitrust complaints. Rivals accused Microsoft of leveraging its market dominance to stifle competition. After years of legal pressure, the case may finally be nearing resolution. Microsoft and the European Commission could soon resolve an antitrust investigation on amicable terms. CNBC notes that the company agreed to offer Teams as a stand-alone product outside its p
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-29 21:18:49
Anthropic has responded to allegations that it used an AI-fabricated source in its legal battle against music publishers, saying its Claude chatbot made an “honest citation mistake.” An erroneous citation was included in a filing submitted by Anthropic data scientist Olivia Chen on April 30th, as part of the AI company’s defense against claims that copyrighted lyrics were used to train Claude. An attorney representing Universal Music Group, ABKCO, and Concord said in a hearing that sources refe
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-01 12:40:54
A California judge fined two law firms $31,000 after discovering that they'd included AI slop in a legal brief — the latest instance in a growing tide of avoidable legal drama wrought by lawyers using generative AI to do their work without any due diligence. As The Verge reported this week, the court filing in question was a brief for a civil lawsuit against the insurance giant State Farm. After its submission, a review of the brief found that it contained "bogus AI-generated research" that led
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-10 12:49:39
When it debuted as an early access game in 2024, the popular action/collection videogame Palworld was an instant hit, but it didn't take a judicial expert to predict that its similarities to Pokemon would invite legal action. That happened about eight months later when Nintendo and The Pokemon Company filed suit, claiming patent infringement. Now, gamers are seeing some of the effects of that legal threat. Pocketpair, the studio behind the unofficial parody, Some features in the game, such as t
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-17 13:20:30
The Legal Aid Agency (LAA), an executive agency of the UK's Ministry of Justice that oversees billions in legal funding, warned law firms of a security incident and said the attackers might have accessed financial information. Approximately 2,000 providers, including barristers, solicitor firms, and non-profit organizations, deliver civil and criminal legal aid services in England and Wales under contracts with the LAA. The agency employs around 1,250 staff and runs the country's Public Defende
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-27 01:00:00
Supio, a startup that uses AI to automate data collection and analysis for legal teams, has raised $60 million in a funding round led by Sapphire Ventures with participation from Mayfield and Thomson Reuters Ventures. The new capital, which brings Supio’s total raised to $91 million, will be put toward growth, hiring, and go-to-market efforts, co-founder and CEO Jerry Zhou told TechCrunch. Supio plans to expand its Seattle HQ and open a new office as it roughly doubles its 100-person staff. Su
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The MyPillow Guy's Lawyers Used AI in Court and You'll Never Guess How That Turned Out "I'm in ruins." We all remember Mike Lindell, the disgraced MyPillow founder who lost everything fighting to prove — against insurmountable evidence to the contrary — that the 2020 US election had somehow been stolen from Donald Trump. Well, he's in the news again — this time for using AI to file his legal briefs. As The New Republic reported, a federal judge has accused Lindell of filing a legal document
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New Orleans, LA - Today, in the early hours of the morning, the New Orleans Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Field Office deported at least two families, including two mothers and their minor children – three of whom are U.S. citizen children aged 2, 4, and 7. One of the mothers is currently pregnant. The families, who had lived in the United States for years and had deep ties to their communities, were deported from the U.S. under deeply troubling circumstances that raise serious due p
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-07 21:00:00
Back in 2020, Xayn was a privacy-based, on-device AI startup designed specifically for smartphones. But that early experience eventually saw the company pivot into developing sovereign AI for the legal sphere. Now Xayn has rebranded as Noxtua and raised a $92.2 million (roughly €81.2 million) Series B round. The round was led by strategic investor C.H. Beck, Germany’s leading legal publisher. For context, C.H. Beck effectively owns the repository of all legal cases and judgments in Germany, giv
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-12 08:45:44
The hype over artificial intelligence might be quieting as the US tech sector stresses over tariffs, but some investors are still knee-deep in the mud, panning for gold. One of them, prominent venture capitalist and former gaming CEO Victor Lazarte, is so confident that he claims AI is already "fully replacing people." While some companies have pumped the breaks on hyped-up promises of a fully-automated future, Lazarte is charging full steam ahead. "Big companies talk about, like, 'AI isn't re
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-28 06:37:15
A man’s recent attempt to use an AI-generated avatar in his legal appeal made an immediate impression on a New York courtroom, but probably not the one he was hoping for. Jerome Dewald — a 74-year-old that The Register notes is behind a startup that says it’s “revolutionizing legal self-representation with AI” — was chewed out during an employment dispute hearing on March 26th for failing to inform judges that he had artificially generated the man presenting his oral argument. While the court h
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-03 13:35:00
The U.K. government has lost its bid to keep secret the details of a surveillance order it brought against Apple, according to a newly released decision by the U.K. surveillance powers’ court. The decision, posted on Monday by the Investigatory Powers Tribunal in London, means that parts of the legal case will be held in public, despite objections from the U.K. government. In its ruling on Monday, the tribunal’s judges said they “do not accept that the revelation of the bare details of the cas
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-03 21:58:04
Apple's encryption row with UK should not be secret, court rules Just now Share Save Tom Singleton & Liv McMahon Technology reporters Share Save Getty Images A judge has sided with a coalition of civil liberties groups and news organisations - including the BBC - and ruled a legal row between the UK government and Apple over data privacy cannot be held in secret. The Home Office wants the right to be able access information secured by Apple's Advanced Data Protection (ADP) system, citing powe
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-11 21:25:53
The Trump administration has, through its attempted deportation of college students vocally critical of Israel, made clear that it does not believe free speech applies to foreign-born residents. Substack, the popular online publishing platform, is aligning itself with free expression. The company announced that it will partner with the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) to offer legal support for foreign writers “residing lawfully” in the United States who are targeted by the
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-12 17:50:33
is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Substack plans to protect foreign writers “residing lawfully” in the US who may be targeted by the government for what they write. The company is partnering with the nonprofit Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) to provide legal support to impacted writers — whether they publish on Substack or not — citing recent attacks on free s
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-23 04:53:39
Ripple and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission have reached an agreement to end their long-running legal battle. Following last week's news that the SEC would drop its appeal without conditions, Ripple has now agreed to withdraw its cross-appeal, Chief Legal Officer Stuart Alderoty said on X Tuesday. The SEC will retain $50 million of the previously imposed $125 million fine — funds already held in an escrow account, Alderoty said. The remaining balance will be returned to Ripple. Addi
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-26 08:01:00
A human rights campaigner, Tanya O’Carroll, has succeeded in forcing social media giant Meta not to use her data for targeted advertising. The agreement is contained in a settlement to an individual challenge she lodged against Meta’s tracking and profiling back in 2022. O’Carroll had argued that a legal right to object to the use of personal data for direct marketing that’s contained in U.K. (and E.U.) data protection law, along with an unqualified right that personal data shall no longer be p
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Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More When legal research company LexisNexis created its AI assistant Protégé, it wanted to figure out the best way to leverage its expertise without deploying a large model. Protégé aims to help lawyers, associates and paralegals write and proof legal documents and ensure that anything they cite in complaints and briefs is accurate. However, LexisNexis didn’t want a general
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-30 00:42:52
In Brief Elon Musk-owned social media platform X is suing the Indian government, accusing the country’s IT ministry of unlawfully expanding its powers to remove online content, Reuters reported Thursday. X has long chaffed at government orders to remove or block content in the country, such as during the farmers’ protests last year. Though it ended up complying with those executive orders, citing the risk of substantial penalties, it did also file a legal challenge. Now it’s further stepping u
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-15 11:08:04
President Donald Trump, defending the honor of his right hand man Elon Musk, has described boycotting Tesla as "illegal." Trump made the comments in a Truth Social post at midnight on Tuesday, after a day that saw a tanking stock price for Musk's automaker. Trump asserted that Musk is actually doing a "fantastic job!" with Tesla — but that "Radical Left Lunatics" are "trying to illegally and collusively boycott" it. "In any event, I'm going to buy a brand new Tesla tomorrow morning as a show o
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Apple takes legal action in UK data privacy row In January, Apple was issued with a secret order by the Home Office to share encrypted data belonging to Apple users around the world with UK law enforcement in the event of a potential national security threat. It is the latest development in an unprecedented row between one of the world's biggest tech firms and the UK government over data privacy. The BBC understands that the US technology giant has appealed to the Investigatory Powers Tribuna
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