Comment by Spooky23
5 years ago
People say stuff like this all of the time. It’s just noise unless your relationship with the provider addresses whatever risks you have.
You don’t just ban it, you attach sanctions to it. Third party disclosure of legal work product is not so good for your legal career.
Would you be happy if the people administrating your health benefits, medical records or taxes were using some random free SaaS that accessed and processed your data without accountability?
How about your attorney? If you were facing criminal prosecution, would you want the information and metadata (how documents were revised) about your case to be subpoenaed and available ton the prosecutors?
The whole article doesn't gloss over those points; it is rather critical of Grammerly except for the last part. But also it, in my opinion, correctly points out that the security measure can't be separated from the social measure in that last part.