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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 AI Tools Can Be a Privacy Risk (Even Judges Are Worried) If you’ve ever typed a question into ChatGPT, Google Bard, or Microsoft Copilot, you probably assumed your words vanish into the ether. Recent court rulings suggest otherwise. In several cases this year, judges have started banning the use of AI tools during legal discovery—the phase where lawyers exchange evidence—because of growing privacy and confidentiality concerns. ...

What Proton’s CEO Fears Most About AI Privacy (and Why He’s Still Optimistic) Proton, the company behind ProtonMail and ProtonVPN, has built its reputation on giving users control over their data. So when its CEO speaks about privacy in the AI era, it’s worth listening. In a recent interview with Spiceworks, the CEO laid out both a specific concern that keeps him awake at night and a measured case for why privacy hasn’t been lost yet. ...

Privacy Is Possible in the AI Era, Says Proton CEO – But Here’s What Worries Him Using AI tools today usually means trading a bit of privacy for convenience. Every query you type into ChatGPT, Gemini, or Copilot travels through servers that may store, analyze, or even train models on your data. For many users, that trade-off feels unavoidable. But Proton CEO Andy Yen argues it doesn’t have to be that way. In a recent interview with Spiceworks, Yen laid out how privacy can coexist with AI — and why one particular threat keeps him up at night. ...

Proton CEO on AI Privacy: What Keeps Him Up at Night and How You Can Stay Safe A recent interview with Proton’s CEO offered a rare, straightforward take on AI privacy: it is possible to protect your data while using AI tools, but one specific threat still worries him. The conversation, published by Spiceworks, focused on the real-world risks that everyday users face and what the company behind Proton Mail and Proton Drive is doing about them. Here is what was said, why it matters, and what you can do right now. ...

How to Spot Malicious Signed Apps: The TamperedChef Malware Explained If you’ve ever downloaded a productivity app from a third‑party site rather than the official store, you might have assumed that a digital signature—those “signed by” certificates you see when installing software—guarantees safety. A recent malware campaign called TamperedChef shows why that assumption can be dangerous. ...

AI Privacy Is Possible — Here’s What Proton’s CEO Says You Should Watch Out For Using AI tools like ChatGPT, Google Bard, or Microsoft Copilot has become routine for millions of people. They help with writing, coding, research, and even personal advice. But every prompt you type into these systems is data — and how that data is handled remains a serious privacy concern. ...

Protect Your Privacy in the AI Era: What Proton’s CEO Wants You to Know Proton CEO Andy Yen recently told Spiceworks that privacy in the age of AI is not only possible but necessary—yet he admits one thing keeps him up at night. It’s not the technology itself, but how most companies are building it: by harvesting vast amounts of user data to train models, often without meaningful consent. For anyone who uses AI tools like ChatGPT, Google Bard, or even voice assistants, the question isn’t whether AI is useful. It’s whether you can use it without giving up control of your personal information. ...

How to Protect Your Privacy in the AI Era: Tips from Proton’s CEO In a recent interview with Spiceworks, Proton CEO Andy Yen made a straightforward claim: protecting your privacy in the age of artificial intelligence is still possible. But he also admitted that one specific AI risk keeps him up at night. That risk, he explained, is not the fear that AI companies will sell your data, but something more insidious: the ability of AI to generate convincing deepfakes using personal information people already share freely online. ...

Yes, You Can Use AI Without Sacrificing Privacy: Here’s How In a recent interview with Spiceworks, Proton’s CEO made a claim that might surprise anyone who has read the fine print of popular AI chatbots: privacy in the AI era is possible. But he also admitted there’s one thing that keeps him up at night—and it’s not technical limitations. It’s the quiet resignation of users who assume they have no choice but to trade their data for convenience. ...