If you are the subject of a criminal investigation, they will seize the devices from your house and do forensics on them. Taking steps to make that harder could expose you to more charges for tampering with evidence.

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robertkarljr 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Exactly this: that's what happened to Heppner. They took the Claude transcripts from his computer with a warrant. Same failure mode. Not clear local AI helps meaningfully

	▲	ronsor 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It means you have the option to not save transcripts in the first place, or have a deletion schedule. There's no tampering because there was no evidence to tamper with. Authorities show up after the fact.