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Every LLM Prompt You Send Is Plaintext. Here's How to Fix That Before the EU Makes You.

Every LLM Prompt You Send Is Plaintext. Here's How to Fix That Before the EU Makes You.

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Your LLM calls are unencrypted confessions. Every time you call litellm.completion() or openai.chat.completions.create() , the provider receives your prompt in full plaintext. Names, emails, SSNs, API keys, medical records - all of it sitting in someone else's logs. That's been a privacy risk for years. In 5 months, it becomes illegal. August 2, 2026 The EU AI Act enters enforcement. Article 12 mandates tamper-evident audit logs for AI systems - not console.log() , not a JSON file you append to. Logs that regulators can mathematically verify haven't been altered. The penalty: up to 7% of global annual revenue . If you use LLMs and handle EU data, you need: PII never reaches the provider (or you need explicit consent per entity) Every AI interaction logged in a verifiable audit trail Most teams have neither. I built CloakLLM to fix both. What CloakLLM Does CloakLLM is open-source middleware that sits between your app and any LLM provider. Python, Node.js, and MCP for Claude Desktop. It

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