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SRA + client confidentiality + GDPR

Confidentiality is the whole job. One paste can waive it.

Lawyers paste contracts, settlement terms, and client identities into ChatGPT to summarise. That can breach SRA confidentiality duties, risk privilege, and trigger GDPR. AIovert blocks it on-device and logs the proof.

gemini.google.com
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Legal

This paste contains confidential client information. Sending it to an AI tool risks privilege and breaches your confidentiality duty. It never left the browser.

The exposure

What Legal pastes into AI, and why it's a problem.

  • Contracts & matters: confidential agreements pasted into an LLM to summarise clauses or draft revisions.
  • Client identities: names, parties, and case facts shared with AI: confidential information under SRA rules.
  • Privilege risk: disclosing privileged material to a third-party model can undermine the protection itself.

Regulatory mapping

The rules that apply, and where the risk sits.

SRA Code 6.3

Duty of confidentiality

Keeping client affairs confidential is a core obligation; an AI paste discloses them to an outside processor.

Legal privilege

Privilege preservation

Sharing privileged content with a third-party model can be treated as a disclosure that erodes privilege.

GDPR Art. 6 / 32

Lawful, secure processing

Personal data in matter files needs a lawful basis and appropriate security; a chatbot paste has neither.

Informational mapping, not legal advice. See our compliance overview for the full framework.

How AIovert helps

Block the leak. Log the proof.

  • Block before disclosure: confidential matter content is cancelled in the browser before it reaches the AI tool.
  • Lawyers keep working: a masked copy lets fee-earners use AI for structure and drafting without exposing client facts.
  • Evidence for your COLP: every attempt is logged with user, data type, and tool. Your record of reasonable controls.