{"id":17772,"date":"2026-04-15T15:01:33","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T15:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/TheNextWeb=c069be5266c6475e90ed7152936341a2"},"modified":"2026-04-15T15:01:33","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T15:01:33","slug":"a-us-judge-ruled-that-a-fraud-defendants-ai-chats-with-claude-are-not-privileged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/?p=17772","title":{"rendered":"A US judge ruled that a fraud defendant\u2019s AI chats with Claude are not privileged"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2026\/04\/US-judge.png\" width=\"868\" height=\"488\"><\/p>\n<p>In a February ruling described as the first of its kind in the US, Judge Jed Rakoff found that Bradley Heppner\u2019s conversations with Anthropic\u2019s Claude about his legal exposure stripped away both attorney-client privilege and work-product protection, because an AI is not a lawyer and public AI platforms have no confidentiality obligation. More than a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/news\/us-court-ai-chats-not-privileged?utm_source=social&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=profeed\">This story continues<\/a> at The Next Web <a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/news\/us-court-ai-chats-not-privileged\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a February ruling described as the first of its kind in the US, Judge Jed Rakoff found that Bradley Heppner\u2019s conversations with Anthropic\u2019s Claude about his legal exposure stripped away both&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17773,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17772"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}