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"Maybe" is as close as I can get to an answer right now, unfortunately. We will certainly allow developers to create cool stuff that integrates with Memoto. Eit

"Maybe" is as close as I can get to an answer right now, unfortunately. We will certainly allow developers to create cool stuff that integrates with Memoto. Either through our API or by some other means. But there are a lot of hard challenges to solve when dealing with people's private data, and it's our responsibility to take a safety-first approach to everything we do.

darklajid 14y ago
Thanks for the answer, but you're missing (or avoiding) my point. The poeple in this subthread seem to be interested in your product, as far as idea and hardware are concerned. Now to please the crowd that still cringes whenever someone mentions the 'cloud' you'd need to offer a way to opt out of your online services, without losing too much functionality or even data. What is the point of any privacy argument here? If I buy that thing from you, it seems (your words) that I can access my images locally, without using the online service. How is 'can I access the data you use to compute the GPS position' any different, privacy wise? We're talking about a device that I would potentially carry around my neck after all.
- martinkallstrom 14y ago
  Memoto is a service where the photos from a lifelogging camera are organized and made searchable in an app in your smartphone. The cloud, no matter if you embrace that term or not, is inescapably needed as part of our tech chain. I think you would agree that data stored locally will always be a nuisance to make available in your phone without synching to cloud servers. What we provide is an option for you to keep a local copy of your photos, no matter if you synch it to Memoto Secure Storage or not. None of the functionality provided in our app will still work if you disable synching to the cloud. We are receiving a constant stream of feature requests supporting different use cases. At the moment we focus on functionality that supports as many use cases as possible. To provide the same functionality with local storage would mean to duplicate everything we have developed into standalone software, and then support that forever. Regarding the privacy aspect, if we allow third party apps to integrate to our API, we can allow the user to retain control over what those apps have access to. But if we would chose to make a development effort to allow locally stored data to be used as an integration point for third party apps, we can no longer provide that level of control. An app that turns out to be malicious can't be disabled across the entire user base, because it's probably installed as an executable on local computers.

darklajid 14y ago

Thanks for the answer, but you're missing (or avoiding) my point. The poeple in this subthread seem to be interested in your product, as far as idea and hardware are concerned. Now to please the crowd that still cringes whenever someone mentions the 'cloud' you'd need to offer a way to opt out of your online services, without losing too much functionality or even data. What is the point of any privacy argument here? If I buy that thing from you, it seems (your words) that I can access my images locally, without using the online service. How is 'can I access the data you use to compute the GPS position' any different, privacy wise? We're talking about a device that I would potentially carry around my neck after all.

martinkallstrom 14y ago
Memoto is a service where the photos from a lifelogging camera are organized and made searchable in an app in your smartphone. The cloud, no matter if you embrace that term or not, is inescapably needed as part of our tech chain. I think you would agree that data stored locally will always be a nuisance to make available in your phone without synching to cloud servers. What we provide is an option for you to keep a local copy of your photos, no matter if you synch it to Memoto Secure Storage or not. None of the functionality provided in our app will still work if you disable synching to the cloud. We are receiving a constant stream of feature requests supporting different use cases. At the moment we focus on functionality that supports as many use cases as possible. To provide the same functionality with local storage would mean to duplicate everything we have developed into standalone software, and then support that forever. Regarding the privacy aspect, if we allow third party apps to integrate to our API, we can allow the user to retain control over what those apps have access to. But if we would chose to make a development effort to allow locally stored data to be used as an integration point for third party apps, we can no longer provide that level of control. An app that turns out to be malicious can't be disabled across the entire user base, because it's probably installed as an executable on local computers.