People saying local AI solves privacy are not even wrong.
Local is more private than a datacenter. Not existing online is more private than local.
Neither is the life people are about to live.
Useful agents book, email, and browse. The inference can sit on a laptop.
The action still hands your identity to a hotel, a broker, an inbox. That leak is not fixed by a smaller model. It is not fixed by trusted execution either.
TEE protects the computation. It does not unpublish your address.
Someone can follow you home and post where you live. No model was involved.
If your privacy plan ignores the data already out there, and the new exposures your own agents create, you do not have a privacy plan. You have a slogan.
True privacy has to sit next to the frontier models, not instead of them. It has to remove what is already exposed, and watch the agents you actually use.