Tara Vasdani is a civil litigator and the Principal Lawyer of Remote Law Canada. Her practice is centred on employment, business and civil litigation, with an emphasis on legal technology, and remote work.
Artificial intelligence has been a popular topic for the past several years and for good reason. Having machines capable of imitating human behaviour and adding dimension to their thinking impacts how we all live, work and deliver client service.
If you’re anything like me, you have wanderlust. You seek warmer destinations in obscure places. You dream of mountains, turquoise coastlines and anything as far away from winter as possible. You live to travel — you don’t travel to live. And the technologies surrounding you make up your workplace.
A few weeks ago, I discovered Google’s My Activity system — not only its ability to intrude on your personal privacy by tracking your movements and thoughts on any given day but its utility to my legal practice and the endless possibilities for lawyers like me with respect to the information stored on an individual.