They Don’t Want Their Company’s #Surveillance Tool Used by #ICE
#ThomsonReuters is a $50 billion #Toronto -based company that owns the #Reuters news service. Its widely used legal research tool, #Westlaw , has operations based in the suburbs of #Minneapolis.
#privacy
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/technology/thomson-reuters-ice-minnesota.html
Gatekeepers of Law: Inside the Westlaw and LexisNexis Duopoly
https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/gatekeepers-of-law-inside-the-westlaw
#HackerNews #GatekeepersOfLaw #Westlaw #LexisNexis #LegalTech #LawIndustry
Apparently #Westlaw is unwilling (or unable) to stop billing their customers for subscriptions after the customer requests that they not be renewed.
I have records of my original non-renewal request, correspondence with an account rep showing that my subscription would not be renewed, and copies of my email to everyone involved after Westlaw informed me that they were going to keep billing my credit card for a plan that no longer existed. In that email I made it very clear that I would NOT be happy if my credit card got billed again.
Guess what? It got billed again.
#WestLaw and #LexisNexis are now trying to sell me subscriptions to their legal #ChatGPT. Cute. 🤣
Et tu, Lex?
Thomson Reuters has won an early battle in court over the question of fair use in artificial intelligence-related copyright cases. The media and technology company filed a lawsuit against Ross Intelligence in 2020, arguing they had used materials from Thomson Reuters’ own legal platform Westlaw to train an AI model without permission. District Judge Stephanos Bibas issued a decision Tuesday that affirmed Ross Intelligence was not permitted under U.S. copyright law to use the company’s content in order to build its platform.
A judge has ruled against Ross Intelligence, an AI company, in their case against Thomson Reuters. It's the first major AI fair use decision.
https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2025/02/11/judge-rules-against-fair-use-defense-for-ai-company/
New #LegalTech #tutorial up on sij.law re:
Better #LegalResearch using #Raycast (#macOS) with #Quicklinks
https://sij.law/raycast-legal-research/
#law #litigation #lawyers #tips #techtips #research #westlaw #courtlistener #ecfr #cfr #usc
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