The skeptic in me really can't trust our current government to protect my information.

Good thing you don't need much trust in this case. Source available here - https://github.com/nationaldesignstudio/rampart

I suppose the model could be doing stuff, but you can also switch that out for your own with the source.

You could never trust the US government to protect our information since it moved online.

I mean, it can be run locally, so you don't necessarily have to trust it, unless there's been any model-as-a-vector CVE.

That hasn't happened yet, has it? Where running a model from HF directly compromises the machine as opposed to some breakout or exfil done by the model after the fact?

That said, if you're filing your taxes or have a 'real' ID, the government already has all pertinent information required to fuck you over either deliberately or via a leak, so...