Building a personal AI assistant raises the PII trade-off: privacy governance vs convenience
ConceptNext5110 · reddit · 2026-10-03
A developer building a personal AI assistant describes a real privacy dilemma: the assistant necessarily holds sensitive PII — home address, kid's school, credentials — that could leak into LLM calls, yet withholding it breaks basic tasks like food delivery.
The post asks how others handle PII in personal assistants and weighs governance against convenience.
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