A federal judge ruled AI chats have no attorney-client privilege. A CEO’s deleted ChatGPT conversations were recovered and used against him in court. On the same day, a different judge ruled the opposite.
A federal judge ruled that your AI conversations can be seized and used against you in court — and deleting them doesn't help. **The Heppner case (February 2026):** – Former CEO Bradley Heppner used Claude to prep his fraud defense – Judge Jed Rako…