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Massachusetts Court Rejects Work Product Protection for AI-Generated Documents
A judge in Massachusetts just laid down a clear marker on AI and legal privilege: if your lawyer didn’t direct the AI search, your prompts and outputs aren’t protected. The case—Shealy v. Seaside Investments, LLC—serves as a sharp warning for anyone using tools like ChatGPT to handle legal disputes on their own. What Happened In…
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Are Your AI Chats Protected from Discovery?
A recent buzz going around in legal circles is whether conversations with AI on a matter that finally ends up in court are privileged or not—that is, whether they are discoverable by the opposing party. Two recent cases shed some light on this question. The Heppner Case: When AI chats lost Privilege On February 17,…
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The End of the “All or Nothing”: Why Google is killing the “Master Switch” and Unbundling Your Privacy
If you’ve opened the Play Store, YouTube, or Google Maps lately, you’ve probably run into a series of polite but persistent pop-ups. You may also have received the “do nothing” emails from Google on your privacy settings. They all say some version of the same thing: “Your settings are changing.”, we will not track your…