In this edition of the Priori Digest, a weekly look at what’s happening in law and technology, we examine the future of facial recognition surveillance both in China and at US summer camps, a judge who asks too much of her employees, and how much more a lawyer can expect to earn with each additional year of experience. Enjoy!
What we’re reading
- A law passed by Egypt’s parliament this week means that social media accounts or blogs with more than 5000 followers will be treated like media companies under the country’s strict media laws. This makes the owners subject to prosecution for publishing false news or incitement to break the law
- With the battle in the Senate looming over Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court, there is a lot of speculation over his ideology. FiveThirtyEight use various methodologies to analyze how conservative he is likely to be
- The world’s smallest computer is so tiny that it makes a grain of rice look gigantic
- Would you let your boss put a chip in your body? The idea isn’t as far-fetched as you might think
- Facial recognition technology in China is creating a dystopian surveillance state -- a real world version of Jeremy Bentham’s Panopticon. It’s not just China though. In the U.S., summer camps are using the same technology so parents can keep up to date with their kids
What in the weird
- A town in western Arkansas has just repealed an ordinance banning dancing on Sundays
- A judge in Montana is criticized for not showing up to work and for having her employees walk her dog and take out her trash
By the numbers
- 2.15: For lawyers who have been hired on the Priori platform, each additional year of experience of experience only adds an extra $2.15 to their hourly rate on average
- 10: Famous law school dropouts
- 100 million: The approximate number of people in Africa who use mobile-money services
