A tribunal secretary uploads witness statements to a shared drive an hour before a hearing. Counsel forwards case documents to a personal e-mail account to work from home. An arbitrator pastes a confidential submission into a general-purpose AI assistant to draft a summary. Five years ago, none of this would have raised an eyebrow. Today, each is a documented route to a data breach in international arbitration.
Arbitration has always sold itself on privacy and confidentiality. That promise now rests on infrastructure that is no different from any other cross-border business process: cloud storage, e-mail, video conferencing, AI copilots, etc. In the age of data gold rush, that infrastructure is a target, and the global arbitration community has only recently started realising it.
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