DoNotPay

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DoNotPay
Get free legal help in under 30 seconds
Help app in legal matters
languages English
founder Joshua Browder
operator Joshua Browder
Registration Yes
On-line 2015
https://www.donotpay.com/

DoNotPay (also: robot attorney or robo attorney) is a social network that is mainly used by law seekers for simple legal questions. DoNotPay originally enabled its users to specify various legal questions based on preset questions / answers and to determine whether an objection, e.g. B. against a penalty mandate for illegal parking is successful or not and to write an objection and has meanwhile been significantly expanded.

The programming languages ​​behind the application are O.js , jobscript , PHP , combined with IBM Watson .

Motivation and basic version

The founder of DoNotPay, Joshua Browder , has annoyed himself several times about penalties for illegal parking. The people are being abused by the city administration as a source of income. With fines for wrong parking and other traffic sins, New York alone earned around 1.9 billion US dollars in 2015 (in Germany, the municipalities are said to have received around 850 million euros from parking tickets in 2013 alone).

The success rate for appeals against penalty mandates by DoNotPay is between 47 and 64 percent. The app has been available in London since 2015 and in New York since March 2016. A total of around 250,000 tickets had been contested by mid-2016, 160,000 of them successfully. By mid-2017, his already 375,000 penalty mandates for illegal parking with DoNotPay had been challenged and the service was extended to all 50 states in the USA.

Expansion of the app

The program was subsequently expanded and should now also include B. Helping refugees to obtain asylum (asylum procedures in the USA, Canada and the UK ) with simple lawsuits, asserting claims in the event of flight delays, etc.

anonymity

According to Joshua Browder, the data entered in the app are only saved for as long as absolutely necessary and then deleted.

The website itself does not comply with the mandatory legal requirements of the United Kingdom or another member state of the European Union with regard to the disclosure of the operator and the person responsible. The donotpay.co.uk domain is registered with Joshua Browder. The domain donotpay.com , which is forwarded to, is only registered with the web hosting service provider (Namecheap Inc.) in Panama without specifying the person.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Robot lawyer canceled 160,000 parking tickets , Der Standard, June 28, 2016, last accessed on February 16, 2018.
  2. ↑ a b Shannon Liao: 'World's first robot lawyer' now available in all 50 states , The Verge, July 12, 2017, last accessed on February 17, 2018.
  3. ↑ a b c Richard Meusers: Mit dem Robo-Anwalt gegen Knöllchen , Der Spiegel Online from February 24, 2016, last accessed on February 17, 2018.
  4. ↑ a b Benedikt Plass-Fleßenkämper: A chatbot helps with lawsuits against the financial service provider Equifax , wired.de, September 12, 2017, last accessed on February 17, 2018.
  5. ↑ Christian Schebitz: https://www.rechtsanwalt.com/anwaltsblog/interview-mit-joshua-browder-wird-aus-donotpay/ Rechtsanwalt.com, August 25, 2017, last accessed on February 17, 2018.
  6. ↑ Markus Hartung, Micha-Manuel Bues, Gernot halib (eds.), Legal Tech: Die Digitisierung des Rechtsmarkts , Munich 2018, CH Beck Verlag, ISBN 978-3-406-71349-1 , margin no. 262 f.
  7. ↑ Robot lawyer disputes traffic tickets , heute.at from June 30, 2016, last accessed on February 17, 2018.
  8. ↑ Carsten Drees: Wrong parking: Robot lawyer cancels thousands of tickets , Mobile Geeks, June 29, 2016, last accessed on February 17, 2018.
  9. ↑ a b Khari Johnson, The DoNotPay bot has beaten 160,000 traffic tickets - and counting , June 27, 2016, last accessed on February 16, 2018.
  10. ↑ Andreas Weck: Parking offenders, watch out! This chatbot takes action against traffic tickets for you , t3n.de, June 29, 2016, last accessed on February 17, 2018.
  11. ↑ Chatbot lawyer helps refugees to get asylum , futurezone.at, March 7, 2017, last accessed on February 16, 2018.
  12. ↑ Florian Christof: https://futurezone.at/digital-life/chatbot-anwalt-hilft-fluechtlingen-dabei-asyl-zu-bekommen/250.400.361 futurezone, March 7, 2017, last accessed on February 17, 2018.
  13. ↑ Peter Gentsch, Artificial Intelligence for Sales, Marketing and Service: With AI and Bots to an Algorithmic Business - Concepts, Technologies and Best Practices , Wiesbaden 2018, Springer Fachmedien, ISBN 978-3-658-19147-4 , p. 167.
  14. ↑ The robot lawyer "DoNotPay" helps free of charge with tickets, flight delays and more , best-practice-business.de, July 21, 2016, last accessed on February 17, 2018.
  15. ↑ A robot lawyer helps refugees with asylum applications , Jetzt.de, March 9, 2017, last accessed on February 17, 2018.
  16. ↑ Chatbot lawyer helps refugees to get asylum Chatbot lawyer helps refugees to get asylum , futurezone.at, March 7, 2017, last accessed on February 16, 2018.
  17. ↑ As of February 17, 2018.
  18. ↑ Whois domain queries on February 17, 2018.