Privacy by Design
I. We do not record your words.
With our native apps, your words are never transmitted to okay human. Using cryptographic techniques, we are able to prove your effort in a document presented to us. We store only a representation of your text, one that cannot be reversed back into the text.
II. We hear you typing. Nothing else.
okay human uses your microphone for one thing: to hear the sound of your fingers on the keyboard. Not your voice. Not your conversations. We use this typing sound as evidence to confirm your writing, and then discard that signal.
It is straightforward to mimic human writing on a computer. Digital signals can be faked. A script can inject keystrokes. Software can simulate typing patterns. But the microphone gives us something a script cannot mimic: physical, real-world proof that someone was actually writing. Combining this proof with how you type, such as how long you spend and how you edit, is what makes the stamp stand for real writing.
III. How this compares.
Most writing verification tools record keystrokes, track every edit, record paste events, store session data on their servers, and build a replayable record of your entire writing session. The result is a surveillance record that serves the institution, not the writer.
okay human serves the writer. We designed the architecture so that we cannot access your text. This is a policy decision, designed deliberately to protect your privacy, that we built into the foundation of our verification tools.
We do not merely promise not to misuse your data.
We built the system so there is no data to misuse.
