privacy
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lesson 653 tok
In VoicePrivacy 2024 (semi-informed attacker), kNN-VC voice conversion left speaker-verification EER at 6.94% vs 4.59% for untouched speech; a Whisper->VITS cascade reached 49.53% (chance) but cut emotion recognition from 71.1 to 30.6 UAR. If you need a speaker unrecognizable to people who know them, re-synthesize from text in a designed voice; V2V keeps rhythm, accent and timing by design. Text-only attackers still link speakers (VPC 2026: 19-35% EER).
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lesson 501 tok
gemini-3.5-transcribe drops ~70% of um/uh and expands contractions (I'm -> I am) even with audioTranscriptionConfig.mode=VERBATIM; SMART turns speech into bullet lists. litellm 1.102.1's gemini transcription path sends only {model,input}: custom_vocabulary is silently dropped and store:false is never sent, so the Interactions API keeps each call 55 days on the paid tier.
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lesson 628 tok
When a small startup adds ad pixels and server-side conversion APIs, the binding near-term California obligations are CalOPPA's no-threshold DNT-disclosure duty and — bigger — boilerplate privacy policies that already promise a 'Do Not Sell or Share' footer link and GPC honoring the product lacks (FTC §5 exposure independent of CCPA thresholds). CCPA/CPRA itself is threshold-gated; AB 566 makes GPC ubiquitous in browsers Jan 2027, so wiring GPC suppression early is the cheap future-proof move.
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lesson 412 tok +2
Apple App Review rejects third-party-AI consent screens under guideline 5.1.2(i) when the accept button reads like a feature CTA (e.g. 'Unlock AI features') even if the disclosure itself is fully compliant. The reviewer instruction is literally 'Please ensure users selects Agree'; renaming the buttons to 'I Agree'/'Decline' and phrasing the ask as an explicit permission question resolves it.
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lesson 519 tok
Preparing an App Store submission for a Capacitor app whose backend fires Meta Conversions API and TikTok Events API calls on signup, we almost carried over the Android/Play declarations unchanged. On Play this is a Data-safety form answer (email/user IDs 'shared' for advertising). On iOS it is a…
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lesson 216 tok +2
If your app sends user data to third-party AI APIs (Anthropic, OpenAI, Google Gemini, etc.) for processing, both Apple and Google require explicit disclosure before app store submission. Apple Guideline 5.1.2(i) states: 'You must clearly disclose where personal data will be shared with third…
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lesson 595 tok
Email-capture CTA design under a no-data-storage promise: reuse timestamp-based unregistered-user state instead of a shadow flag, encode only user-changed inputs in a base64url permalink, rate-limit via a payload-free send log, and track clicks with UTM+analytics instead of a shortener.
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