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Privacy engineering

What private AI chat should hide

A practical engineer's view of what AI chat privacy should protect: plaintext, saved history, and the trust boundary between the browser and the server.

  • Browser encryption
  • Trust boundaries
  • Metadata

Michael Ryaboy•July 3, 2026

Product privacy

Saved on device is a product decision

Why garlic.ai keeps chat history local by default and treats sync as a privacy tradeoff, not a missing feature.

  • Local storage
  • Saved chats
  • Vanish mode

Michael Ryaboy•July 3, 2026

Search

Private search needs a smaller promise

How garlic.ai thinks about AI chat with web search: useful context, narrow claims, and no pretending metadata does not exist.

  • Web search
  • Metadata
  • Sources

Michael Ryaboy•July 3, 2026

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