In February 2026, a federal court ruled that conversations with public AI tools carry no expectation of privacy. Hey Eduardo runs entirely on your Mac, so privileged material never reaches a third party. The privilege analysis that applies to your word processor applies to Hey Eduardo.
Every prompt you submit to ChatGPT, Claude.ai, or Gemini is a disclosure to a third party. For privileged matters, that may be enough to lose the privilege.
February 2026 federal ruling: AI platforms have no confidentiality obligation. Submitting privileged material may waive the privilege. The court ordered 31 ChatGPT documents discoverable.
Requires informed client consent before inputting confidential information into AI tools with self-learning capabilities. Multiple state bars have parallel rules.
OpenAI is under a May 2025 federal preservation order to retain all ChatGPT logs indefinitely. Your prompts and uploaded documents are now subject to subpoena.
Hey Eduardo runs the AI model on your local hardware. When you paste in a client communication, work through a strategy memo, or analyze a contract, the data stays on your device. There is no transmission. There is no vendor. There is no third party to whom you have disclosed the material.
Because the disclosure that breaks privilege does not occur, the privilege analysis that applies to your other professional tools — a word processor, a spreadsheet, a legal pad — applies equally to Hey Eduardo.
It can. In US v. Heppner (S.D.N.Y. Feb 2026), a federal court ruled that conversations with public AI platforms carry no expectation of privacy. Local AI that doesn't transmit data to a third party doesn't create the disclosure that waives privilege.
The Opinion turns on whether a tool has self-learning capabilities that may use your input. Hey Eduardo doesn't train on your inputs, doesn't retain them, doesn't transmit them. The underlying disclosure concern doesn't arise.
Yes. After the initial model download, Hey Eduardo runs entirely offline. Use it in airplane mode, in a SCIF, anywhere with no network connection.
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