Who it’s for
Different obligations. Identical exposure.
A solicitor worries about privilege, a GP about health information, an accountant about TFNs, an engineer about a client’s NDA. The rules differ. The mechanism by which each of them gets breached is exactly the same: AI is only useful when you give it the real detail.
Legal
Law Firms
Confidentiality and privilege are not policies you can update
Every firm we speak to says the same thing: they have not approved any AI tool, and they are quite sure someone is using one anyway. Draft advices, discovery bundles, client correspondence — pasted into a free …
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Medical & Allied Health
The turnover exemption does not apply to you
Clinical documentation is the most tedious part of practice and the most obvious thing to hand to AI. Consult notes, referral letters, discharge summaries. The tools are good at it. The problem is that health i…
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Accounting & Advisory
Tax file numbers carry their own regime
Accounting work is dense, repetitive and highly structured — which makes it exactly the kind of work AI handles well, and exactly the kind of data you cannot afford to leak. A trial balance pasted into a chatbo…
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Engineering & Resources
Client NDAs rarely contemplate a third-party AI service
For engineering and resources firms the exposure is usually commercial rather than personal. Tender pricing, methodology, geological interpretation, client drawings held under NDA. This is the material your com…
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Insurance Brokers
ASIC, ACL and privacy overlap here in an awkward way
Broking runs on detail. To place a risk properly you gather claim histories, financial position, medical disclosures, sometimes deeply personal circumstances the client would not casually mention twice. Staff u…
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Architects & Design Firms
Client NDAs rarely mention AI. That is not the same as permitting it.
A brief for a hotel refurbishment, a retail rollout, a private residence — each one is a project the client has not announced and does not want their competitors, tenants or neighbours seeing. Concept sketches,…
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Financial Advisers
Best-interests duty, Code of Ethics, and the Privacy Act sit on top of each other
Financial advice, properly done, requires an unusually complete picture of a person. Assets, liabilities, income, dependants, health, relationships, plans. Advisers use AI to shorten fact-find summaries, draft …
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Real Estate Agencies
Agency legislation, AML/CTF and privacy all care about how you handle client data
Every real estate transaction is a negotiation held on incomplete information. Vendors trust you with their bottom line. Buyers trust you with their approval limits. The gap between what each side knows is wher…
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Government & Public Sector
Data residency is not a nice-to-have here
Government departments and agencies handle information about people who cannot choose to opt out of the relationship. Case files, income data, medical status, immigration status, criminal history. Staff want AI…
Read more →Not on this list?
These are the sectors where we see the sharpest need. The same reasoning applies to recruiters, not-for-profits handling client case notes, universities and research institutions, and any team with data residency requirements we haven't listed yet. If you hold information you are obliged to protect and your staff would benefit from AI, the problem is the same one.
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