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 \u2013 drones replacing field adjusters, algorithms replacing office-chair evaluators \u2013 and that\u2019s interesting.
\nWell maybe there\u2019s 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\u2019s appointments. (The holy grail is video of a guy who claims he\u2019s 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\u2019s finding that they\u2019re too crippled to walk.)\n
\nBonus: \u201cRun-of-the-Mill Justice\u201d, a law review article explaining how \u201csettlement mill\u201d ambulance-chasers and insurance companies have established a modus vivendi that is completely unmoored from the nominal functions of civil law or insurance
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