Show HN: Privato - smart, scoped and temporary data access for personal agents
Hi HN! Sharing our latest open-source project: Privato Agents now get access to our email, texts, calendar, files, everything. They can read whatever they like, whenever they like. We sacrifice personal data privacy for max productivity. But we no longer have to. Privato gives AI agents a scoped, temporary pass to ONLY the data it needs to answer a question. If you ask "When does my flight to Tokyo leave?", the agent accesses your airline emails about that trip for 10 minutes, nothing
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2026-11-03 18:00:26.873Z
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What changed
Source account: Hi HN! Sharing our latest open-source project: Privato Agents now get access to our email, texts, calendar, files, everything. They can read whatever they like, whenever they like. We sacrifice personal data privacy for max productivity. But we no longer have to. Privato gives AI agents a scoped, temporary pass to ONLY the data it needs to answer a question. If you ask "When does my flight to Tokyo leave?", the agent accesses your airline emails about that trip for 10 minutes, nothing
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Source votes: 1 votes (Nov 3, 2026 UTC; cumulative since publication); previous same-scope observation: 1 (Nov 3, 2026 UTC). These observations do not establish demand growth. Recent records to compare: “Show HN: Ramen – an AI agent that has to earn its own rent” (Hacker News, Nov 8, 2026); “Show HN: I built an AI code editor that for teams” (Hacker News, Nov 8, 2026). Shared themes are navigation hints; they have not been verified as the same need or independent corroboration.
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