Barry Scannell
IrelandlawyerMale4.0Global Dominance: 0.00%Barry Scannell is an AI law and policy partner at William Fry and a member of the Government-appointed AI Advisory Council. He gained attention for his reaction to a recent change in OpenAI's ChatGPT app that inadvertently made user conversations accessible through search engines, expressing shock at the implications for privacy and security. Scannell advocates for greater AI literacy among users to prevent similar incidents in the future.
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Barry Scannell, a partner at William Fry who specialises in copyright and AI, believes the case may prove to be a bad one for authors in the long term.
Hundreds of Irish writers set to share millions of euro after €1.31bn Anthropic settlement – The Irish TimesIreland· 2026-07-26
Barry Scannell is an AI law and policy partner at William Fry solicitors and a member of the Government-appointed AI Advisory Council.
Thousands of ChatGPT conversations accessible online despite efforts to erase them – The Irish TimesIreland· 2025-08-11
Barry Scannell, an AI law and policy partner at William Fry and a member of the Government-appointed AI Advisory Council, expressed shock at the accessibility of sensitive material.
OpenAI disables ChatGPT feature that made user prompts accessible on search engines – The Irish TimesIreland· 2025-08-03