In this edition of the Priori Digest, a weekly look at what’s happening in law and technology we look at how bounty hunters can locate your phone with only $300, Gizmodo’s list of the 100 most important technological inventions of all time, an in-depth interview with the CEO of Stripe and how gerrymandering will again be scrutinized by the Supreme Court. To get the digest straight to your inbox, sign up here. Enjoy!
Stories to start your year
- The technology website Gizmodo have released their list of the 100 most important pieces of technology of all time (including everything from the wheel to the mobile phone). What would the number one on your list be?
- The Supreme Court takes up partisan gerrymandering cases in Maryland and North Carolina, giving the court another opportunity to determine whether electoral maps warped by politics cross a constitutional line
- The story of a very litigious bikini
- The big legal tech challenge of 2019 will be ensuring that law firms and legal departments are on the same page
- This is a great interview with the Co-Founder and CEO of Stripe, Patrick Collison
What blows our mind
- Mobile phone companies are selling access to their customers' location data. This means a bounty hunter can locate your phone for only $300
- Technological progress in one tweet
What amuses us
- A “high-tech robot” at a conference in Russia turns out to be just a man in a suit
- An Arkansas city council candidate who twice showed up too late to vote for himself in a contest that ended in a tie, wound up losing the race in a dice roll
The weekly lawyer cartoon
By the numbers
- 50: For the first time, 50 percent of the world will be online in 2019
- 26: This week was the first time in her 26 years on the Supreme Court that Ruth Bader Ginsburg has missed a day of oral arguments
- 7: Legal tech trends to watch in 2019
