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What are legal analytics? How AI and big data is changing law school
Analytics is changing our entire world — from drawing fairer voting districts to optimizing supply chains and even interpreting centuries of climate patterns. The accrual and study of data bring remarkable levels of insight. And help trim the fat from just about...
Can big data be used to prevent crime from happening?
If you’ve seen the movie “Minority Report” — released back in 2002 — you know the premise is both unique and far-fetched. It is, after all, a science-fiction film littered with futuristic technology and unheard-of societal norms. Drugs, for example, are consumed via...
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Artificial intelligence in law: Embracing technology [Infographic]
Traditionally, the legal profession has been slow on embracing technology but now, at least partly it is embracing the opportunities associated with algorithm-driven computer technology. This infographic will explain how. This infographic originally appeared here....
Big Data to prevent crime; cyber stop & frisk risk?
Even casual observers are well aware that Big Data is frequently used to create targeted ads, to recommend products for purchase by online shoppers, and to suggest connections on social networking sites. But people may not be aware that Big Data has become an...
How to fight claims fraud with big data?
In today's highly competitive marketplace, most insurance companies have already streamlined their operations to optimise cost structures. Commoditisation of markets and lower investment returns are keeping pressure on insurers to tightly manage expense ratios....
How Big Data helps us in the fight against crime: Beyond ‘Minority Report’
In today's complex world, criminals are everywhere. There is a greater responsibility on law enforcement authorities than ever before to apprehend criminals even before they commit crimes. This idea of arresting people before they commit a crime was first featured in...
How Big Data helps us in the fight against crime: Beyond ‘Minority Report’
In today's complex world, criminals are everywhere. There is a greater responsibility on law enforcement authorities than ever before to apprehend criminals even before they commit crimes. This idea of arresting people before they commit a crime was first featured in...
Data in crime fighting: Beyond Minority Report
When we discuss Big Data in crime fighting, the analogy of Minority Report, the 2002 Tom Cruise film, always comes up. This is the idea that it would be possible to predict who is going to commit a crime and when meaning that law enforcement can stop these crimes...
Can big data predict the next cyber attack?
The battle to secure private data, whether financial information or intellectual property, may be won through big data analysis. That, at any rate, is what Bob Griffin, cybersecurity firm RSA’s chief security architect, thinks. “The ability to take massive volumes of...
How Big Data Could Undo Our Civil-Rights Laws
Big Data will eradicate extreme world poverty by 2028, according to Bono, front man for the band U2. But it also allows unscrupulous marketers and financial institutions to prey on the poor. Big Data, collected from the neonatal monitors of premature babies, can...
Fighting tax fraud with big data
John F. Kennedy famously said "It is a paradoxical truth that tax rates are too high today and tax revenues are too low," and with April 15 right around the corner, chances are your tax returns leave you hoping that everyone else is planning on paying their fair share...
Police think ‘Big’ in fight against petty crime
Local police are turning to information technology to help them combat a rising tide of petty theft in the city. At the heart of the latest crime-fighting campaign is the "Big Data" system set up by the Shanghai Public Security Bureau. Providing officers with...
Big data used to catch fraudulent tax returns
Identity thieves are stealing billions of dollars a year through fraudulent tax refunds—and the IRS isn't the only target. The 43 states that collect an income tax are also being flooded with these bogus returns. How serious is the problem? A report from the Treasury...
Major companies not making full use of big data to spot fraud
Most companies are spurning the chance to improve their anti-fraud and anti-bribery efforts by not taking full advantage of big data analysis, according to research from business consulting firm EY. EY found that 63 percent of senior executives surveyed at leading...
Big data – an opportunity or a threat in the fight against fraud?
It’s shocking to think that despite the UK losing an estimated £52billion to fraud annually, some businesses still bury their heads in the sand when it comes to confronting the problem, whether it comes from an internal or external threat. In times when people are...
Crime fighting with big data weapons
For Lombroso, a sloping forehead, large ears, very long arms and any one of a host of other physical characteristics pointed toward their owner's in-born propensity for a life lived on the wrong side of the law. If only it were that easy to spot the bad guys. Now, it...
Leveraging real-time scoring through BigData to detect insurance fraud
Fraud risk exposure from claims is a major concern for the insurance industry, and it’s growing. But timely detection of attempted fraud is challenging. Effective fraud detection must sift through huge volumes of data coming from many different sources, both inside...
Big Data and Law Enforcement: Was ‘Minority Report’ Right?
Big Data has always been around in some form or another. At some point, businesses decided to use that information to learn what makes their clients tick with phrases like “sales funnel analysis,” “actionable insights,” and “positive business impact.” So it stands to...
How new tech can help lawyers rethink their jobs in the big data age
The legal profession is inherently conservative when it comes to adopting new technologies and practices, but firms and lawyers that want to stand out in an evolving field might want to jump on the big data bandwagon sooner rather than later. Law firms took a beating...
Navigating the Big Data Nuances of Financial Crimes
Catch me if you can. That seems to be the mantra of the modern day cyber thief, fraudster or money launderer. Cloaked behind anonymizers, spoofing and botnets, criminals employ extensive means to go undetected. While advances in technology can provide organizations...