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Privacy by Design for Legal AI

Principles for minimizing sensitive data, redaction, and safe UX cues in legal-adjacent products.

Principles

  • Minimize: Ask for the smallest amount of information needed.
  • Redact: Encourage removing names, addresses, account numbers, case numbers.
  • Warn: UI should remind users not to paste sensitive data.
  • Separate: Keep analytics and user content isolated.
  • Audit: For hosted systems, log access and retention policies.

UX patterns that help

  • Place “do not paste sensitive data” reminders near inputs.
  • Provide examples of safe prompts.
  • Offer downloadable summaries without storing content.

This demo site follows the last point: it runs in your browser and does not upload text anywhere.