[blindLaw] Assisstibe Tech

[christophergbell at comcast.net]

I do not disagree with your concern.  However, it might be worthwhile to contact Aira.iO to see whether they have received any letter or other document from a State Bar regarding Aira's confidentiality agreement.  You might also obtain a copy of Aira's confidentiality agreement and runn it by a Bar's ethics counsel to gauge their reaction.  Ideally, of course, it would be best to get a letter from the ethics counsel asserting that Aira's confidentiality agreement satisfies the Bar's confidentiality requirement but they probably won't send such a letter.  Best, Chris

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Hi All,

I agree with all this. I will also add that use of something more robust, like Aira, may still not be possible depending on the nature of your practice. For instance, I am concerned about unauthorized disclosures in my own practice because I am routinely looking at highly sensitive financial and personally identifiable information. An unauthorized disclosure for my context is something like confidentiality on steroids and if done with intent, can carry jail time. In fact, if you are not assigned to a matter at the office, you cannot look at another attorney's materials for that other matter. Relatedly, a national security practice will have even stricter considerations about confidentiality, disclosure, and access. The only solution is going to be a human reader who has attained the same level of authorization or clearance as the blind attorney who wants to review materials subject to some heightened sensitivity or confidentiality classification.

Sincerely,
Nikki

On Wed, Apr 24, 2024 at 11:03 AM Al Elia via BlindLaw <blindlaw at nfbnet.org>
wrote:

> You ask about two different types of softwares:
>
> Be My Eyes connects you to live   volunteers. There is no
> client-confidentiality protection involved there. It’s AI feature 
> shares your images with a third-party provider with no ability for you 
> to control that third-party’s use of data.
>
> Seeing AI: This is a Microsoft product. It primarily runs on your 
> phone, though it sends some images to Microsoft. Read the terms and 
> conditions and see if you are comfortable using it.
>
> Other similar services/software:
>
> Aira Explorer: Uses paid agents and is a paid service similar to Be My 
> Eyes. Aira has confidentiality provisions in some of their service 
> contracts to allow business use by governments etc. Again, read the 
> terms and conditions, but I suggest using this instead of Be My Eyes 
> for any work where confidentiality/sensitivity is implicated. Just 
> keep in mind that it can get expensive. However, it may be a 
> reasonable accommodation from an employer, and may be more cost-effective than a traditional human reader.
>
> Lookout: Google’s Seeing AI competitor. My comments re Seeing AI 
> apply, just replacing Microsoft with Google.
>
> I hope that is helpful.
>
> /Æ
>
>
> On 23 Apr 2024, at 9:24, Thomas Dukeman wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I was wondering if anyone has used either Seeing AI or Be my eyes on
> legal documents with people's information on it and habe any issues 
> with keeping confidentiality with it not sabving any of the 
> confidential info on the documents?
>
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