A French law that criminalizes the use of data analytics to assess and predict patterns in judges’ court decisions has baffled much of the legal world and the growing data analytics industry.

The new law, which passed in March but stayed under the radar until this month, states that “the identity data of magistrates and members of the judiciary cannot be reused with the purpose or effect of evaluating, analysing, comparing or predicting their actual or alleged professional practices.”

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