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 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. ...
Why Some Judges Are Banning Public AI Tools in Court – and What It Means for Your Privacy In recent months, a quiet but significant trend has emerged in U.S. courtrooms: judges are formally barring the use of public generative AI tools like ChatGPT and Google Gemini during the discovery phase of litigation. The stated reason is privacy. These rulings, reported by Bloomberg Law in early June 2026, reflect a growing judicial awareness that public AI platforms pose real risks to the confidentiality of sensitive information—risks that extend far beyond the legal profession. ...
Why Judges Are Banning AI in Court Cases – And What It Means for Your Privacy Intro A little-noticed legal trend is quietly unfolding in courtrooms across the United States. Judges are starting to order lawyers—and by extension, their clients—to stop using public generative AI tools during the discovery phase of litigation. The reason? Privacy. ...
Judges Are Banning AI in Court – Here’s How to Protect Your Privacy Too Intro If you use ChatGPT, Copilot, or similar AI tools for work or personal tasks, you might want to know about a trend unfolding in U.S. courtrooms. In recent weeks, several judges have issued orders that explicitly prohibit lawyers from using generative AI during the discovery phase of litigation. The reason? Privacy risks. These rulings are not about legal strategy or courtroom missteps—they are about the risk that sensitive data uploaded to AI tools could leak to the AI provider and beyond. ...
Why Judges Are Banning AI in Court Discovery — and What It Means for Your Privacy If you use an AI assistant to help draft documents, summarize emails, or analyze contracts, you have likely noticed how quickly these tools process large amounts of text. In the legal world, that same capability is tempting for a task called discovery — the phase where parties exchange evidence and documents before trial. ...