Editor’s Note: Originally published in 2013, this article used the concept of randomness to spotlight a seemingly minor risk in eDiscovery: the one-percent chance of error in each manual data transfer. In 2025, that risk is no longer theoretical. With 60% of breaches involving a human element—and third-party involvement doubling year-over-year to 30% according to

The Privacy Commissioner has published a case study of what can go wrong when using publicly available GenAI tools like ChatGPT in the workplace.

In the fictional case study a car insurance company permits its employees to use individual accounts on publicly available GenAI products to assist in performing routine tasks, such as summarising documents