You know the headlines where attorneys use mainstream AI tools for their legal work and inadvertently violate client-attorney privilege? Those are unfortunate stories and even more unfortunate realities. Clearly, not all AI is created equal. But what if there were a tool that anonymizes identifiable information that can be used anywhere at any time? Oh wait, there is! It’s called CamoText, and this episode features its founder, Erich Dylus.
As a solo-practice lawyer, Erich underwent the mind-numbingly mundane task of manually removing private data in his legal work. He noticed that the labor of wiping metadata and copy-pasting clean text into AI chats was the kind of friction that causes lawyers to ignore privacy steps. Erich wanted a way to expedite and preserve confidentiality. Luckily for him, he’s also a programmer.
The Python script he wrote became CamoText, a fully offline document app that detects and replaces PII (personally identifiable information) with placeholders. Names, email addresses, UUIDs, locations, finances, and other private information are camouflaged. And the best part? You can paste the sanitized version from CamoText into your AI tool of choice, with human review, of course.
Tune in to learn about less obvious privacy vectors, how CamoText also serves non-legal industries, and why offline apps offer security by simplicity.
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