Friday, June 14, 2019

France Bans Judge Analytics, 5 Years In Prison For Rule Breakers


Kremlin says mistakes may have been made over arrest of journalist

The Kremlin has admitted mistakes may have been made by police during the arrest of Ivan Golunov, ...

Guardian: Kushner Company Awash In Mysterious Offshore Cash


Private detectives undertook mostly divorce work, but they also helped trap gigolos, gold-diggers, bogus spiritualists, scammers, shysters and fake matrimonial agencies. All these tell a story of new times and of postwar singletons, independent but also perhaps unworldly, lonely and vulnerable. There was a bracing optimism, a spirit of self-improvement, of lecture groups, evening classes and branch meetings. I enjoyed Stapleton’s description of the Efficiency Club for women, of which West was secretary (she once invited Dorothy L Sayers to speak on ‘efficiency in murder’).

London’s only Lady detective.”Maud West had a talent for disguise, infiltration, and self-promotion. Her career is a snapshot of social change... Maud maud West 




Former ice junkie blamed ex-girlfriend for keeping him high during ATO scam


A former ice addict who pleaded guilty to ripping off the tax office by almost $14,000 blamed his ex-girlfriend for keeping him high and “under the thumb”.





Based upon the Gray Lady’s reportage over the years, evidently, it was a great place to kick back and have a smoke, after all that swinging sex in the Soviet Union.

As Walmart turns to robots, it’s the human workers who feel like machines WaPo. Workers training their replacements, as usual.
9-year-old boy pays off entire school lunch debt for his class after saving his allowance The Hill. We train kids early on going into debt, don’t we?
Google Tricks: How to Supercharge Your Searches and Become an Instant Power User Washington’s Blog. Of course, if Google hasn’t indexed a site, these tricks won’t help.

France Bans Judge Analytics, 5 Years In Prison For Rule Breakers

Artificial Lawyer – “In a startling intervention that seeks to limit the emerging litigation analytics and prediction sector, the French Government has banned the publication of statistical information about judges’ decisions – with a five year prison sentence set as the maximum punishment for anyone who breaks the new law. Owners of legal tech companies focused on litigation analytics are the most likely to suffer from this new measure. The new law, encoded in Article 33 of the Justice Reform Act, is aimed at preventing anyone – but especially legal tech companies focused on litigation prediction and analytics – from publicly revealing the pattern of judges’ behaviour in relation to court decisions.
A key passage of the new law states: ‘The identity data of magistrates and members of the judiciary cannot be reused with the purpose or effect of evaluating, analysing, comparing or predicting their actual or alleged professional practices.’ *
As far as Artificial Lawyer understands, this is the very first example of such a ban anywhere in the world. Insiders in France told Artificial Lawyer that the new law is a direct result of an earlier effort to make all case law easily accessible to the general public, which was seen at the time as improving access to justice and a big step forward for transparency in the justice sector. However, judges in France had not reckoned on NLP and machine learning companies taking the public data and using it to model how certain judges behave in relation to particular types of legal matter or argument, or how they compare to other judges…”

Australia-only markets in everything: Microsoft-affiliated new Xbox-branded body wash, shower gel, and deodorant.


Metal foam stops .50 caliber rounds as well as steel – at less than half the weight PhysOrg.  “Arms race.”






This report analyses and develops a methodology for measuring a category of red tape that to date has been ignored. This category of red tape is described as ‘regulatory dark matter,’ which refers to publications by government agencies that seek to influence the behaviour of regulated actors (such as businesses) but lack adequate democratic oversight.