29.07.2026, Moscow.
A senior executive at a Moscow-based company, who was accused of disclosing commercial secrets after uploading company documents to the DeepSeek chatbot, attempted to challenge his dismissal in court, but the court rejected his claim. According to Rossa Primavera News Agency‘s IT Desk, the case serves as another reminder that interactions with publicly available AI systems are not private.
“The plaintiff had no business necessity to extract information stored on the employer’s protected local media, send it to an external email address not controlled by the employer, or upload it to the third-party DeepSeek service,” the ruling of the Babushkinsky District Court of Moscow states.
The court therefore regarded the placement of the information on a third-party platform that is its processing by an AI system as a decisive factor.
The use of AI chatbots can, of course, greatly assist with routine work, as chatbots are capable of processing vast amounts of information within seconds. This encourages many people to delegate tasks to digital assistants. However, it is important to remember that all such data is transmitted to a third-party service.
Relying on anonymity among millions of user requests is therefore naïve. Despite the apparent chaos, these same neural networks make it possible to effectively search through digital “junk” for valuable information, as well as for those to whom that information can be sold. And this applies not only to trade secrets but also to military secrets.
Source: Rossa Primavera News Agency
