AI & Privacy
Surveillance, data collection and personal privacy in an AI-powered world.
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Bipartisan AI safety, privacy bills await action in Illinois House

On-Device vs. Cloud Embeddings: Building Privacy-First AI Apps
by TinyTwo — Part 5 of “Building AI Agents That Actually Work” — a series on production-grade AI engineering.

From Paper to Rows: Why I Built iv-structura, a Document AI Where You Pick the Privacy Mode
by Alvalen Shafel — TL;DR: Built a document extraction pipeline with three privacy modes (fully local, hybrid, cloud API) controlled by a single env var…











