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Why Judges Are Banning AI in Court — and What It Means for Your Privacy If you’ve used a free AI tool like ChatGPT to summarize a meeting, transcribe a recording, or review a document, you’ve probably appreciated the convenience. But a growing number of judges are now ordering lawyers and litigants to stop using those same tools during legal discovery. The reason? Privacy — and the risk that sensitive information uploaded to public AI services could end up training the next generation of models. ...

Can You Stay Private While Using AI? Proton’s CEO on the One Risk That Worries Him Most Most people who use tools like ChatGPT, Google Assistant, or Microsoft Copilot probably don’t spend much time thinking about where their conversations end up. The AI answers a question, summarizes an email, or drafts a reply, and that feels like the end of the transaction. But the data you share doesn’t just vanish. ...

Judges Are Banning Public AI Tools in Court Cases: Here’s What It Means for Your Privacy If you use a free AI chatbot to draft emails, summarize documents, or help with a work project, you might not think much about where that data goes. But courts are paying attention. In recent months, several judges have explicitly banned the use of public AI tools during legal discovery – the phase where lawyers exchange evidence before trial. The reason? Privacy risks that could compromise the entire legal process. ...

Proton CEO on the Biggest AI Privacy Threat and How to Protect Yourself AI tools are now part of everyday life, from drafting emails to generating images. But each query you send could become training data for the next model update—or a record held by a third party. In a recent interview with Spiceworks, Proton’s CEO acknowledged that privacy in the AI era is achievable, but pointed to one concern that keeps him up at night: the erosion of user control over personal data as it flows into opaque AI pipelines. ...

Judges Are Banning AI in Court Discovery — Here’s What That Means for Your Privacy If you use an AI note-taking app to transcribe meetings or summarize documents, a recent trend in courtrooms should catch your attention. Over the past year, a growing number of judges have ordered that AI tools not be used during legal discovery—the phase where parties exchange evidence before trial. The stated reason: privacy risk. ...

AI Doesn’t Have to Mean Giving Up Privacy: What Proton’s CEO Wants You to Know Intro Every time you paste a paragraph into ChatGPT, ask Claude for a summary, or let Copilot draft an email, you hand over data. For many people, that trade‑off feels inevitable – you can’t use modern AI tools without exposing your personal information. But Proton’s CEO, Andy Yen, argues that privacy in the AI era is actually possible. There’s one thing, though, that keeps him up at night. ...

Why Some Courts Are Banning AI Tools in Legal Cases – And What It Means for Your Privacy If you use a public AI chatbot like ChatGPT for work or personal tasks, you may want to reconsider what you feed it. Several U.S. judges have recently issued orders prohibiting the use of public generative AI tools during the discovery phase of litigation. The reason? Data submitted to these tools can be absorbed into training sets, potentially exposing sensitive information. ...

Is Privacy Possible in the AI Era? Proton’s CEO Says Yes, But Warns of This One Threat Intro As AI tools like ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, and Google Gemini become part of everyday life, many people are beginning to ask a tough question: can you still keep your data private when using these systems? Proton’s CEO, Andy Yen, recently spoke with Spiceworks about this exact concern. His answer is cautiously optimistic: privacy is possible in the AI era, but there is one threat that he says keeps him up at night. ...

1 in 3 Americans Has Been Scammed Shopping Online – Here’s How to Protect Yourself Introduction If you shop online — and most of us do — you’ve probably seen deals that seem too good to be true, or sellers who ask you to pay outside the usual checkout process. New data from Pew Research Center confirms that this isn’t just a minor annoyance: about a third of Americans say they’ve had an online shopping scam happen to them. That number comes from a November 2025 survey, and it underscores how widespread these schemes have become. ...

Why Courts Are Banning AI in Legal Cases—And What It Means for Your Privacy In recent months, judges in several U.S. courts have issued orders prohibiting the use of generative AI tools during legal discovery. The stated reason: privacy risk. These rulings, reported by Bloomberg Law News, mark one of the more tangible signs that the legal system—often slow to react to technology—is treating AI data leakage as a serious problem. ...