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The Ruling Is In: GenAI Prompts Are Core Discoverable ESI
Think your AI prompts disappear when you hit delete? Not when litigation lands. We unpack the OpenAI copyright MDL to show how courts are turning ChatGPT conversation logs into core electronic evidence—preserved, sampled, de-identified, and produced under a protective order. The result is a clear, repeatable playbook for handling AI data at scale without letting privacy swallow relevance.We walk through the emergency preservation orders that halted deletion across consumer, enterprise, and API logs, then explain why the parties settled on a 20 million chat sample and how de-identification pipelines strip direct identifiers while keeping prompts and outputs analyzable. Along the way, we tackle the big question of relevance: why usage patterns and non-infringing outputs matter for fair use factor four, market harm, and damages, and why a search-term-only approach can’t answer merits questions in a generative AI case.You’ll hear the strategic pivots that shaped the fight—OpenAI’s attempt to narrow production after de-identifying the full sample, the court’s treatment of privacy as part of burden rather than a veto, and the denial of a stay that kept production on track. Then we distill three takeaways for legal teams: prompts are now squarely within the duty to preserve, the sample you propose will likely bind you later, and privacy is a dial you engineer through sampling, de-identification, and AEO protections.Whether your organization uses ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini, Claude, or in-house LLMs, this episode maps the practical steps: identify where logs live, understand tenant controls and exports, plan system-based discovery alongside key custodian evidence, and build credibility with numbers and workflows you can defend. Subscribe, share with your litigation and privacy teams, and leave a review telling us: how are you preparing your AI preserves and productions for 2026?
Against the Federal Moratorium on State-Level Regulation of AI
Cast your mind back to May of this year: Congress was in the throes of debate over the massive budget bill. Amidst the many seismic provisions, Senator Ted Cruz dropped a ticking time bomb of tech policy: a ten-year moratorium on the ability of states to regulate artificial intelligence. To many, this was catastrophic. The few massive AI companies seem to be swallowing our economy whole: their energy demands are overriding household needs, their data demands are overriding creators’ copyright, and their products are triggering mass unemployment as well as new types of clinical ...
This is a pretty significant change for many of us who had been concerned about vetting data protection agreements with Anthropic before allowing user access to the Claude option in Coiplot Chat, and who've also watched new agents for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint rollout, but not to our tenants with Anthropic model access disabled.
Learn why GenAI prompts, responses, and logs may be discoverable in litigation, what courts are signaling, and how legal teams should manage this emerging data type.
M365 News for November 2025 - Mike McBride on M365
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Is Your Teams Meeting Being Recorded? I’d Assume It Is
A few months ago, I wrote about people using AI Notetakers in Teams meetings. I've spoken several times about the privacy implications of recording Teams meetings, using Copilot, and related practices. One thing I've been encouraging people to understand is that, even if you host the meeting and turn off all AI, recording, and transcription
Lawmakers Want to Ban VPNs—And They Have No Idea What They're Doing
It's unfortunately no longer enough to force websites to check your government-issued ID before you can access certain content, because politicians have now discovered that people are using Virtual
In his 2020 book, “Future Politics,” British barrister Jamie Susskind wrote that the dominant question of the 20th century was “How much of our collective life should be determined by the state, and what should be left to the market and civil society?” But in the early decades of this century, Susskind suggested that we face a different question: “To what extent should our lives be directed and controlled by powerful digital systems—and on what terms?” Artificial intelligence (AI) forces us to confront this question. It is a technology that in theory amplifies the power of its users: A manager, marketer, political campaigner, or opinionated internet user can utter a single instruction, and see their message—whatever it is—instantly written, personalized, and propagated via email, text, social, or other channels to thousands of people within their organization, or millions around the world. It also allows us to individualize solicitations for political donations, elaborate a grievance into a well-articulated policy position, or tailor a persuasive argument to an identity group, or even a single person...
Compromised Credentials Responsible for 50% of Ransomware Attacks
The statistics listed in the Quarterly Threat Report: Third Quarter, 2025, issued by Beazley Security are eye popping. They include: August and September
That post-vacation crash happens because time off alone doesn’t solve chronic stress. Learn what actually creates lasting change and prevents burnout. Save this vacation truth and •follow• fo…
Large-scale trial finds four-day workweek improves employee well-being and physical health
New research indicates that a four-day workweek with full pay boosts physical and mental health. The study suggests these benefits are largely driven by better sleep and a stronger sense of work ability.
