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Judges Are Banning AI in Court Discovery Over Privacy Risks — Here’s What You Need to Know In recent months, a small but growing number of judges have issued public orders barring the use of artificial intelligence tools during the discovery phase of litigation. The reason isn’t just technical—it’s rooted in core privacy and ethical concerns. These rulings signal a shift in how courts view AI’s role in handling sensitive information, and they carry implications far beyond the courtroom. ...

Privacy in the AI Era Is Possible—But Here’s What Proton’s CEO Really Worries About When Proton’s CEO Andy Yen says privacy and AI can coexist, people in the security world listen. Proton has built its reputation on end-to-end encrypted email, VPNs, and cloud storage, and its leader has been outspoken about the trade-offs consumers face when using free online services. ...

How to Protect Your Privacy While Using AI: Lessons from Proton’s CEO Artificial intelligence tools have become part of everyday life—answering questions, summarizing documents, generating images. The convenience is real. But every time you paste a block of text into a chatbot or give a voice assistant access to your calendar, you are sharing data with companies that may use it for training, profiling, or advertising. ...

How to Protect Your Privacy When Using AI Tools: Advice from Proton’s CEO AI tools like ChatGPT, Google Bard, and Microsoft Copilot are now part of daily life for millions of people. They help us draft emails, summarize documents, brainstorm ideas, and even code. But every time you paste a block of text or ask a question, you are handing over data that can be stored, analyzed, and possibly used to train future models. ...

Privacy in the AI Era: What Keeps Proton’s CEO Awake—and How You Can Protect Yourself In a recent interview with Spiceworks, Proton’s CEO Andy Yen offered a refreshingly frank take on privacy in the age of AI. On one hand, he believes that meaningful privacy is still achievable—even as AI tools become embedded in our daily workflows. On the other, he pointed to a specific threat that keeps him up at night: the way AI providers are quietly shifting from being tools to being data brokers. ...

What Proton’s CEO Fears Most About AI Privacy — and How to Protect Yourself Six years after the launch of ChatGPT reshaped how people interact with technology, Proton CEO Andy Yen says privacy in the AI era is not only possible but necessary. But there is one thing that keeps him up at night. In a recent interview with Spiceworks, Yen pointed to a specific risk that many users overlook while they tap into convenient AI tools. ...

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. ...

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. ...

Why the Source of AI Training Data Is a Growing Privacy Risk for You If you have used a generative AI tool like ChatGPT or a popular image generator, you may have wondered where the software got its knowledge. Increasingly, that question is not just technical curiosity — it is becoming a central legal and privacy issue. ...

Can You Keep Your Privacy in the AI Era? Proton’s CEO Shares His Biggest Concern Introduction Using AI tools like ChatGPT, Gemini, or Copilot often feels like a trade‑off: you get fast answers and smart suggestions, but you hand over your questions, documents, and sometimes personal data. For privacy‑conscious users, that exchange feels increasingly uneasy. As more people rely on generative AI for work, research, and everyday tasks, the question isn’t just whether AI can be useful—it’s whether you can use it without losing control over your information. ...