The title is clickbaity to make it look about privacy, but this is really a story about automation replacing white collar private-sector functionary jobs – drones replacing field adjusters, algorithms replacing office-chair evaluators – and that’s interesting.

Well maybe there’s a privacy AND vanishing middle-class jobs angle here: the bread and butter of private investigators these days, more than cheating spouses, is personal injury and workers comp fraud, posting up outside claimants yards and doctor’s appointments. (The holy grail is video of a guy who claims he’s too disabled for manual labor humping around bags of concrete to build a deck, or someone bounding across the parking lot to an appointment that yields a doctor’s finding that they’re too crippled to walk.)

Bonus: “Run-of-the-Mill Justice”, a law review article explaining how “settlement mill” ambulance-chasers and insurance companies have established a modus vivendi that is completely unmoored from the nominal functions of civil law or insurance