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Again keep in mind that we are talking about a case limited analysis of that data within the privacy of the court system.

For example, if the trial happens to find data that some chats include crimes committed by users in their private chats, the court can't just send police to your door based on that information since the information is only being used in the context of an intellectual property lawsuit.

Remember that privacy rights are legitimate rights but they change a lot when you're in the context of an investigation/court proceeding. E.g., the right of police to enter and search your home changes a lot when they get a court issued warrant.

The whole point of E2EE services from the perspective of privacy-concious customers is that a court can get a warrant for data from those companies but they'll only be able to produce encrypted blobs with no access to decryption keys. OpenAI was always a not-E2EE service, so customers have to expect that a court order could surface their data to someone else's eyes at some point.




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