Local privacy
Also known as: local privacy · data stays local
Local privacy is the property that your prompts, documents, and outputs never leave your own hardware.
It’s the primary motivation for local LLMs:
- Sensitive docs, code, or data stay on your box.
- No third-party logs, no retention policies to worry about.
- You control what’s stored and where.
The honest framing: local privacy is real but bounded — it protects you from the *provider*, not from malware on your own machine. Know which threat you're defending against.