[HN Gopher] Judge Orders OpenAI to Give Lawyers 20M Private Chat...
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       Judge Orders OpenAI to Give Lawyers 20M Private Chats -
       'Anonymization'
        
       Author : heisenbit
       Score  : 25 points
       Date   : 2025-11-13 19:25 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.techdirt.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.techdirt.com)
        
       | busymom0 wrote:
       | Wouldn't every single American in that 20M people have standing
       | (legal term) to prevent this?
        
       | m463 wrote:
       | anonymization wouldn't remove personally identifying data typed
       | in. I can think of lots of examples.
        
       | 4ndrewl wrote:
       | In what way are these "private chats"?
       | 
       | These are instructions to a computer-based service that you
       | presumably signed your rights away to when you accepted the
       | T&C's?
        
         | rpdillon wrote:
         | The linked article is making the point that the judge is
         | claiming that they are preserving privacy with this order
         | because they believe in de-anonymization of the data set. The
         | judge appears to have no understanding of how re-identification
         | works and the history here.
         | 
         | So while it's an interesting question about whether privacy
         | exists, the point here is that it doesn't exist, but the judge
         | is saying it does.
        
       | ChrisArchitect wrote:
       | Related:
       | 
       |  _Fighting the New York Times ' invasion of user privacy_
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       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45900370
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       |  _We analyzed 47,000 ChatGPT conversations. Here 's what people
       | use it for_
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       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45902767
        
       | jazzyjackson wrote:
       | never say anything to a cloud hosted chatbot you wouldn't want to
       | see printed in the new york times
        
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