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Articles tagged Privacy

  • 8 min read

    Voice Cloning Needs Consent, Not Just a Licence

    A voice can be cloned from five seconds of audio. The hard part is consent: what a donator must agree to, what the AI Act makes you disclose, and which records answer the question later.

    • AI
    • Privacy
  • 9 min read

    Local Text-to-Speech in 2026: Quality, Cost and Privacy

    Cloud TTS bills per character and sends your text away. Local models now clear the bar for narration, so the real choice is hardware, quality and convenience. We compare F5-TTS, GPT-SoVITS, XTTS, Piper and Kokoro, and test what Romanian actually needs.

    • AI
    • Privacy
  • 7 min read

    Client Accounts Do Not Belong in Your Main Browser

    A shared browser profile puts every client session in one cookie jar, under extensions that can read them all. Here is what a stolen session grants, and what real isolation means.

    • Security
    • Privacy
    • Developer tools