What ChatGPT knows about your divorce. And who can subpoena it.
If you have used a chatbot to think through your divorce, the conversations are producible. The protocol to follow before discovery requests arrive.
Digital privacy during divorce and legal disputes — device audits, account separation, spyware detection, and what courts actually see.
If you have used a chatbot to think through your divorce, the conversations are producible. The protocol to follow before discovery requests arrive.
Divorce and separation produce a category of digital exposure that did not exist twenty years ago. Shared Apple IDs, shared cloud, shared smart home, shared location, shared streaming. Every one of these is now standard discovery in family court. The operational baseline for the seventy-two hours before filing, the proceeding itself, and the post-decree untangling.
Bryan Fleming built pcTattletale, a stalkerware platform with 138,000 paying customers and over $600,000 in PayPal revenue. He was fined $5,000. The ratio tells you exactly how seriously the US legal system treats non-consensual surveillance in domestic relationships.
In 2018, a Missouri sheriff used a carrier-data reseller called Securus to track the location of a judge and a fellow officer without a warrant.
Spyware runs in the background and transmits data continuously.
Check active sessions on every major account.
In a contested divorce, your digital life becomes evidence.
You’ve filed a claim about reduced income or limited resources.
Shared iCloud. Shared Google account.