What Judges’ AI Bans During Discovery Mean for Your Privacy If you’re involved in a lawsuit—whether as a plaintiff, defendant, or third party asked to produce documents—you may soon hear about a new restriction: a judge ordering that no AI tools be used during discovery. These orders are becoming more common, and they have a lot to do with protecting your privacy. ...
Can You Actually Keep Your Privacy While Using AI? Proton’s CEO Weighs In Every new wave of technology brings a familiar trade-off: convenience for privacy. AI tools are no exception. You ask a chatbot a question, let an app summarize your emails, or use an AI image generator — and in return, your data gets processed, stored, and possibly reused to train the next model. For many people, that exchange has started to feel less like a fair deal and more like a silent giveaway. ...
Why Judges Are Banning Public AI in Court – Privacy Warning for Everyone What’s happening? In recent months, a growing number of judges have ordered lawyers and litigants not to use public artificial intelligence tools—such as ChatGPT, AI notetakers, and other open‑web chatbots—during the discovery phase of legal cases. Bloomberg Law reported in June 2026 that these rulings zero in on a specific concern: privacy and the risk of leaking confidential information. ...
Privacy in the AI Era Is Possible – But Here’s What Worries Proton’s CEO If you’ve used ChatGPT, Google Gemini, or any other large language model in the past year, you’ve probably asked yourself: Is my data safe? It’s a fair question, and one that Andy Yen – the CEO of Proton, the company behind Proton Mail and Proton VPN – addressed in a recent interview with Spiceworks. ...
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. ...