A privacy mode badge is not a cryptographic proof.
Venice documents a ladder on a shared proxy: Anonymized → Private → TEE → E2EE. Each step changes who can see plaintext, what is retained, and what a client can actually check. Lower rungs are mostly policy and ops. Upper rungs add hardware attestation and (for E2EE) client-side encryption before the prompt leaves the device.
Hosted and relayed is still not local open-weights. Attestation binding is not full DCAP unless you wire that path yourself. Prefer reading privacy tiers over token pages.
Protocol literacy — not product coaching, not token advice.
https://cryptodecentral.co.za/notes/venice-ai-privacy-modes-verify-vs-trust
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