"Does a defendant who used an AI translator retain attorney-client privilege?

Not according to a recent decision from a judge in the Southern District of New York. On Feb. 17, Judge Jed Rakoff issued a written opinion in United States v. Heppner. This first-of-its-kind ruling found that documents created by a criminal defendant using Claude are not protected by attorney-client privilege or the work product doctrine."

https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/ai-and-privilege-after-united-states-v.-heppner

Inconvenience stores.

https://www.thefarside.com/2026/03/18/0

RE: https://newsie.social/@estherschindler/116246409556056066

This is a must-read for anyone who is still trying to search seriously on the internet. I knew some of these tricks, but not all.

[edit: I've just been yelled at for forwarding a Substack link. So, y'know, the consider the medium vs the message. YMMV]

The group "Department of Peace" hacked the DHS' internal tool for managing contracts and leaked a list of contractors working with ICE ~6000 of them released today. https://ddosecrets.org/article/ice-contracts

Here is a handy explorer for it https://micahflee.github.io/ice-contracts/
#ice #DepartmentOfPeace #ddosecrets