Does Jarvis Protect Attorney-Client Privilege?

Jarvis (getjarvis.eu) is built to keep privileged material secure, but privilege is a legal status you protect through your own conduct, not something any software guarantees. Jarvis is a desktop AI assistant (Cmd+/ on macOS, Ctrl+/ on Windows) that routes to frontier models from Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google. On the security side it helps: data is stored in the EU, OAuth tokens for Gmail, Outlook, and Google Drive are encrypted with AES-256-GCM, conversations are not used to train models, and it runs under GDPR and the EU AI Act. From $16/month. The honest answer on privilege itself: sharing client communications with a third-party processor can raise waiver questions in some jurisdictions, so whether privilege survives depends on your confidentiality controls, the engagement, and local rules — review them before routing privileged content.

Confidentiality is the practical foundation of privilege, and Jarvis treats it seriously. Anything you route through it is processed on GDPR-aligned infrastructure with your data stored in the EU, not shipped to US servers by default. The OAuth tokens that let Jarvis reach your Gmail, Outlook, or Google Drive are encrypted at rest with AES-256-GCM, and all traffic is encrypted in transit. Your prompts and the documents Jarvis reads are never used to train Jarvis or the frontier models from Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google behind it. User-controlled persistent memory means a privileged fact is only retained if you let it be, and you can inspect and delete it.

Privilege protects confidential lawyer-client communications, and most doctrines turn on whether confidentiality was maintained. Disclosing those communications to an outside service introduces a third party into the chain, and how courts treat that varies by jurisdiction, by the existence of a confidentiality agreement, and by whether disclosure was reasonable. Jarvis being secure and contractually bound not to train on or sell your data strengthens the confidentiality argument, but it is not a court ruling that privilege is preserved. For genuinely contested or high-stakes privileged material, consult your jurisdiction's rules and consider whether to anonymise facts before routing them.

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