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Filings, personal data and artificial intelligence.
A few pieces, written when we have something to say: what actually leaves an office when a filing ends up in a chat window, where hand work goes wrong, and which words to use when somebody asks what happened to the data.
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Four hundred pages, one night, and no document leaves the room
What a model genuinely does well on an anonymised file, what it still makes up, and where human checking cannot be delegated.
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Essentiality is a rule you already have, applied from the wrong end
Italy’s rules of conduct have long required publishing only indispensable data. The same question, asked before uploading a file, has a shorter answer.
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A whistleblower is protected from all but the document they gave you
Italian Decree 24/2023 protects a whistleblower’s identity and everything it can be inferred from, even indirectly. A company document is made of that.
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The wall around a source has no doors, but you have a window
Article 200 of the Italian criminal procedure code and the EMFA protect a source from those hunting for it. Neither covers a document you upload yourself.
Try it on a case you have already closed.
Three days with every feature. The filing stays on your computer, and at the end of the trial you decide.