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Policy2026-06-28 · source-backed
In the case against Jonathan Rinderknecht for the New Year's Day 2025 fire, one of LA's deadliest, prosecutors submitted ChatGPT conversation logs and location data; the trial ended in a mistrial (The Verge). It's an early, high-stakes precedent for chatbot conversations being subpoenaed in criminal court. The builder implication is direct: chat logs are discoverable legal artifacts now. If you're storing user-AI conversations, your retention policy is a legal-exposure decision, not just a storage one.
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